ricep5
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join:2000-08-07
Jacksonville, FL
 ·AT&T Southeast
 ·AT&T CallVantage
·VoicePulse
 ·Comcast Formerly ..
| Other Divisions
They have other divisions that are doing fairly well.
M owns spectrum for private radio use.
M makes law enforcement radio gear which is high margin
Recently bought Netopia, not a cash king, but has great channel with telecoms
M owns Good Software, decent software for phone sync
M is a great engineering company that has struggled making competitive mass market devices.
Still owns a part of Freescale, the joint venture with IBM that makes Power CPU's and other discrete microelectronics.
While handsets are a big loss, it is nowhere near what they lost trying to develop Windows NT for PowerPC. Iridium was a large loss but that was syndicated amongst bondholders.
You have to give them credit, they take risks, its just that they have lost too much on each one lately. |
