摩托羅拉 (MSI) 2007 Q4 法說會逐字稿

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I would now like to introduce Mr.

Dean Lindroth, Corporate Vice President of Investor Relations.

Mr.

Lindroth, you may begin your conference.

Thank you and good morning.

Welcome to Motorola's fourth-quarter results conference call.

A number of forward-looking statements will be made during this presentation.

Forward-looking statements are any statements that are not historical facts.

These forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of Motorola, and there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct.

Because forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, Motorola's actual results could differ materially from these statements.

Information about factors that could cause and in some cases have caused such differences can be found in this morning's press release on pages 16 through 24 in Item 1A of Motorola's 2006 annual report on Form 10-K and in Motorola's other SEC filings.

This presentation is being made on the 23rd of January, 2008.

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I will now turn the call over to Greg Brown, Chief [Executive] Officer.

Thanks, Dean, and good morning.

With me today is Tom Meredith, our Chief Financial Officer.

Today we will discuss our results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2007, as well as provide some perspectives on Q1.

But first I do want to say that I am privileged to be the CEO.

This is a Company that has a long tradition of technology, innovation, a great brand and talented associates that are committed to delivering quality products and services to our customers around the world.

Sales in the quarter were $9.65 billion.

Earnings per share from continuing operations and excluding highlighted items were $0.14 and in line with the guidance we provided on our last earnings call.

I would like to highlight a few things that went well in the quarter but also areas where we need to improve.

Some highlights include solid sales performance in sequentially higher operating margins in our Home and Networks Mobility and Enterprise Mobility Solutions businesses.

In addition, we reduced the operating loss in Mobile Devices, and operating cash flow was positive with a 10-day improvement in cash conversion cycle.

Despite these results and solid progress on a number of fronts, there still are some challenges, primarily in Mobile Devices.

And these include demand for some of our products has slowed.

An intensified competitive landscape.

Our consistency in new product introduction is still not where it needs to be, and we still have gaps in the portfolio in areas that are experiencing high rates of growth including 3G, China and other emerging markets.

As a result, my main focus right now is ensuring we execute on the following priorities.

Aggressively rationalizing the Company's cost structure with a particular emphasis on Mobile Devices and our corporate G&A and enhancing the Mobile Devices product portfolio and delivering a consistent and timely stream of innovative products.

With regards to the product portfolio, we are intent on transitioning to software and silicon that enables lower cost, faster time to market and richer consumer experiences.

Developing a broader 3G productline and expanding 2G, including low-tier devices around our new silicon architecture through ODM solutions.

And introducing more products, like the E8 music device that demonstrates unique experiences, innovation and design.

We recognize there is a lot more work to be done.

That said, we have made meaningful progress, and I would like to highlight a few examples.

We reached an agreement with QUALCOMM to extend our relationship to include UMTS chipsets.

We reached an agreement with Freescale that provides us with greater flexibility, and we're taking incremental cost action that will result in savings of $500 million.

Our portfolio enhancement efforts in Mobile Devices are obviously still in progress and will take more time to complete.

During this transition we will maintain a significant focus on cost, cash and driving profitability improvement.

While Mobile Devices is a major focus right now, we will also ensure that Home and Networks Mobility and Enterprise Mobility Solutions continue to get the focus, attention and resources that they need to continue their strong performances.

2008 will be a challenging year, and the recovery in Mobile Devices will take longer than previously expected.

We're taking on these challenges with both a sense of determination and urgency.

I want to thank our associates around the world for their hard work and dedication this past year.

I know it has been difficult for many.

I also want to take the opportunity to thank our customers and our suppliers for their continued support.

And now I will pass the call over to Tom after which I will come back and discuss our business operations in more detail and provide some additional color on the first quarter.

Thanks, Greg.

In the quarter sales were $9.65 billion, down 18% versus last year and up 9% as compared to the third quarter.

For the full year, sales were $36.6 billion, down 15% compared to last year.

The year-on-year sales declines are all attributable to the Mobile Devices business.

On a GAAP basis in the quarter, the Company had earnings from continuing operations of $0.05 per share compared to earnings from continuing operations of $0.21 per share last year.

For the full year, we incurred a loss from continuing operations of $0.05 per share.

The fourth-quarter GAAP results include highlighted items of $0.09 per share.

This includes a $276 million charge related to an agreement that we reached with Freescale.

We also took charge of the $93 million related to our previously announced workforce reductions and $31 million for a write-down of certain assets.

These were offset in part by a tax-related gain of $51 million.

Earnings per share from continuing operations and excluding highlighted items were $0.14 per share for the quarter and $0.24 for the full year.

My next several comments will also exclude highlighted items.

Compared to the third-quarter, gross margin percentage for the Company was essentially flat, and operating expenses as a percent of sales improved.

This, along with our higher sales, resulted in an operating profit of $381 million, up from $169 million reported last quarter.

The other income was $52 million, up from $18 million last quarter.

The increase was primarily due to a pre-tax gain on the sale of embedded communications computing.

On an after-tax basis, however, the impact of the transaction was insignificant.

Our overall income tax rate in the quarter was 26%, and we continue to expect a more typical tax rate of 35% in 2008.

Our operating cash flow was $470 million in the quarter and positive in all three business segments.

For the full year, our operating cash flow was $785 million.

Fourth-quarter results reflect significant improvement in our cash conversion cycle.

We ended the quarter with net cash of $4.3 billion, up slightly from last quarter.

In the quarter we used $557 million, up from $118 million last quarter, to repurchase 33.7 million shares at an average cost of $16.49 per share.

To date $7.7 billion of our total $11.5 billion in stock share repurchase authorizations have been completed.

We have now repurchased approximately 385 million shares since we initiated our first repurchase program in 2005.

The cash conversion cycle at quarter-end was 33 days compared to 43 days into the third quarter.

The improvement I am pleased to say was broad-based.

Receivables improved by three days, inventory improved by six days and Accounts Payable improved by one day.

The 10-day reduction reflected an improvement across all businesses.

Mobile Devices ended the quarter 11 days better than last quarter, Home and Networks Mobility improved by 14 days, and Enterprise Mobility Solutions improved by seven days.

We are pleased with the continued progress being made as a result of our focus and the alignment of our objectives and in priorities.

The current momentum and discipline will serve us well in our efforts to continue to drive our cash conversion cycle of 20 to 30 days by the end of 2008.

Despite sequential improvement in our operating results, 12 months return on invested capital was lower.

We're taking a number of actions which will enable ROIC improvement, one of which is our cost savings program.

As Greg mentioned, we're taking incremental cost actions that will result in savings of $500 million.

Our previously announced workforce reductions are complete.

At the end of December, we had approximately 65,000 employees compared to approximately 72,000 just after the Symbol and Good acquisitions were completed.

Moving onto our outlook, for the first quarter, we expect an operating loss from operations of $0.05 to $0.07, excluding items of the variety highlighted in our quarterly earnings release.

This guidance reflects our continued challenges in Mobile Devices.

We will maintain tight controls over our operating expenses and continue to monitor closely the fluid market conditions.

Now I will pass the call back to Greg who will review business operations in more detail and provide additional color for the first quarter.

Thanks, Tom.

In Mobile Devices sales for the fourth quarter were $4.8 billion on volume of 41 million units.

Our estimated market share in the quarter was 12.4%.

Excluding highlighted items, the operating loss in the quarter was $82 million compared to the $138 million loss last quarter.

North America and Latin America, our strongest markets, accounted for 53% and 20% of total sales in the quarter respectively.

EMEA and Asia-Pacific represented 15% and 12% of sales respectively and remain challenged due largely to our product portfolio, particularly in Europe and Asia.

As we exited the quarter, channel inventory was essentially at normal overall levels.

Turning now to our product portfolio enhancement efforts, the top priorities remaining are software and silicon initiatives, which will enable a broader portfolio of innovative and lower-cost devices.

On the silicon front, we are pleased to have reached an agreement with QUALCOMM to broaden our supply relationship.

We intend to design QUALCOMM chipsets into our UMTS handset portfolio, and as you know, TI will also be a key supplier of chipsets for UMTS devices in addition to their current significant supply role in our GSM products.

And Freescale will continue to be an important supplier for both GSM and UMTS chipsets.

Our increased flexibility across multiple silicon providers will enable us to bring the market a broader range of devices at lower cost.

The transition to having more devices with more cost competitive software platforms and chipset designs is underway.

We will show additional progress by the end of the year and have a more robust and competitive portfolio in 2009.

Moving on to the current product portfolio in feature phones, RAZR and KRZR continued to be top sellers globally.

In the quarter we sold over 8 RAZRs and over 3 million KRZRs.

RAZR2s contributed another 1.5 million units.

This month at the Consumer Electronic Show we announced the newest additions to our ROKR franchise, including the touch-operated ROKR E8 music device featuring several innovations such as morphing, optics and Crystal Talk and related accessories.

The E8 was recognized at the show with multiple best of CES awards.

On the music front, we have been selling music and digital content to consumers in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan through our MOTOMUSIC service.

Earlier this month we announced the acquisition of Soundbuzz, a leading provider of digital music in Asia.

This acquisition provides a growth opportunity for Motorola and our carrier customers as it will enable us to enhance and extend MOTOMUSIC to India, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

In multimedia, top sellers included the Z6 family of slider music devices.

We also begin shipping the Q700 SideKick slider featuring fast access to instant messaging and e-mail, and we announced the MOTO U9 music device.

Recently at CES we announced the MOTO Z10, a 3G device with the capability to capture, edit and then upload content directly to websites such as YouTube and Facebook.

In the mass market, the W375 and W220 devices are among our top sellers.

During the quarter we announced several additional W Series products that encompass everyday communications needs with SMS, Bluetooth, FM Radio, cameras and other features at affordable price points.

Our mass market devices accounted for a higher percentage of units shipped in the fourth quarter than in the third quarter contributing to the sequential decline in the overall ASP.

In productivity we added the latest addition to the Q family, the Q9c CDMA device, and we begin shipping the HSDPA Q9h in North America.

Looking ahead to the first quarter, we anticipate typical seasonal sequential trends for the overall handset market.

In addition, given our current challenges, Mobile Devices units and sales will be down significantly compared to the fourth quarter, resulting in an operating loss.

I can assure you I am not satisfied with where we are, and we're moving quickly to address our top priorities.

Turning to Home and Networks Mobility and Enterprise Mobility Solutions, in short they are executing well and have delivered solid financial results and are poised for further growth in 2008.

Home and Networks Mobility sales for the segment were $2.7 billion, up approximately 11% versus last year and up approximately 14% versus the third quarter.

Excluding highlighted items, operating margin was 7.6% compared to 9.6% last year and up from 6.9% in the third quarter.

Our Home business is focused on delivering personalized media experiences to consumers at home and on the go and enabling service providers to operate their networks more efficiently, delivering new revenue generating applications and services to their subscribers.

Fourth-quarter sales in this business increased sequentially to $1.1 billion and operating margin improved.

For the full year, sales growth was 27%, and operating margin increased, driven by growing demand for access to personalized content, when, where and how consumers want it.

Regionally sales in the fourth quarter in North America grew 12% compared to last year and accounted for approximately 80% of total sales.

Sales outside North America were up 24% where we see very strong demand, particularly in Europe and Latin America.

In digital entertainment we maintained our market leadership position with unit volume of 3.4 million digital entertainment devices, which included a record quarter for IP devices.

HD DVR and IP devices represented approximately 37% and 22% of total units respectively.

In Video Network Solutions we experienced solid growth in Next Generation products, largely attributable to recently completed acquisitions.

With important wins in the quarter at major operators like BT, along with others, we're well positioned for continued sales growth in this area and in the quarters ahead.

On the product front, at CES we introduced several products that support our media mobility focus.

These included the DCX Series of MPEG-4 HD set-tops capable of advanced video services, media storage and usable as a home multimedia hub.

The DH01 Mobile TV, a pocket-sized DVBH device for multimedia entertainment on the go, and finally, a plug and play WiMAX dataport to support wireless broadband Internet connectivity to the home.

Turning to cellular networks, overall network sales in the quarter were $1.6 billion, up sequentially due to higher GSM sales.

As we have talked about before, pricing pressures continue in GSM as does the declining level of iDEN infrastructure sales in the US, which continue to put pressure on operating margin.

That said, we are profitable in each of the three main technologies.

We're investing in future technologies, and we have maintained a consistent overall operating margin level.

Having said that, the industry is highly competitive, continues to be very challenging, and we do not expect this environment to change anytime soon.

In Mobile Broadband we continue to expand our footprint.

At the end of the year, we had 47 active trials, 15 commercial contracts and had delivered over 2000 access points to our customers globally.

In LTE we're leveraging our WiMAX investment and recently were named by Verizon as one of the suppliers for their network trial.

Looking to the first quarter for the Home and Networks Mobility segment, we expect slightly lower sales year-over-year with lower operating margin.

This reflects solid sales and operating margin performance for Home.

In Networks we expect lower year-on-year sales and operating margin due to continuing GSM margin pressure, lower iDEN infrastructure sales and the sale of our Embedded Communications Computing Group.

Now let's take a look at Enterprise Mobility Solutions.

Sales for Enterprise Mobility Solutions were nearly $2.1 billion, up 9% sequentially and up significantly as compared to last year due to the Symbol acquisition.

Excluding highlighted items, operating margin for the segment was 21.8% as compared to 17.2% in the third quarter.

As expected, Government and Public Safety sales of $1.5 billion for the quarter were flat year-over-year and up nearly 6% for the full year.

Operating margin, excluding highlighted items for the quarter and full year, were essentially flat compared to a year ago.

In North America, in the quarter North America accounted for 63% of sales, due in part to continued strong demand for our digital systems solutions and growth resulting from the 800 megahertz rebanding.

In EMEA, which represented 24% of sales, results were driven by TETRA Digital Radio Solutions and MOTOTRBO radios.

Asia-Pac and Latin America accounted for 8% and 5% of sales respectively.

We also closed on our joint venture with Vertex Standard, a global provider of two-way radio communications solutions.

The joint venture will give Vertex Standard access to Motorola's global distribution channels and will enable both companies to deliver a broader combined product portfolio to customers worldwide.

In Enterprise Mobility our solutions allow our customers to reduce costs, increase worker mobility and productivity and enhance customer experiences.

Total sales increased to over $640 million, up 11% compared to the third quarter.

Sales from Symbol on a stand-alone basis grew again in the double-digit range year-over-year.

Overall Enterprise Mobility operating margin improved sequentially.

The Americas accounted for approximately 60% of sales in the quarter, while EMEA and Asia-Pac represented approximately 30% and 10% respectively.

In North America Symbol sales were higher year-on-year as we continued to see strength in retail, transportation, logistics and other verticals.

Europe had strong double-digit year-over-year operating performance as well, driven by retail and field mobility and healthcare.

Asia-Pac also saw double-digit year-on-year growth.

The integration of Symbol, which has gone exceptionally well, is effectively complete, and Motorola's brand recognition is beginning to broaden the market opportunities for Symbol's enterprise product offerings.

Going forward, we will only be providing results for the total enterprise business and no longer calling out results for Symbol on a stand-alone basis.

On the product side, we announced integrated GPS functionality for the MC70 and an RF management suite, which provides an Enterprise Mobility dashboard for Wi-Fi planning, network monitoring and security and device management.

And recently we launched a new category of device, the CA50, a Voice over IP-enabled wireless scanner for retail and healthcare.

Looking ahead to the first quarter, we anticipate typical sequential sales trends in both Government and Public Safety and Enterprise Markets.

For Enterprise Mobility Solutions, we expect slightly higher year-on-year sales and double-digit operating margin.

In closing, as we look at our fourth-quarter operating performance, we met several of our financial targets, including earnings and cash conversion cycle improvement.

But in Mobile Devices, as we know, we must drive improved profitability and enhance our product portfolio.

The first quarter will be a challenging quarter.

We have taken some important steps with many more underway.

The team is committed to getting the job done, and I look forward to updating you on our progress.

Now I will turn it back to Dean to start the Q&A.

Thanks, Greg.

Before we begin taking questions, we would like to remind callers to limit themselves to one question so that we can accommodate as many participants as possible.

Operator, you can now provide our callers with instructions on how to ask a question.

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Matthew Hoffman, Cowen & Co.

The first question here is on the guidance.

The Company clearly trimmed its losses in the handset business in 4Q, but I was hoping to get some additional color on 1Q in terms of outlining what you meant by significant specifically.

Are you still trying to hold the line on ASPs, or is the Company planning to do more to hold market share at the expense of margins here in 1Q?

We're not actually guiding to any color on ASPs, but what we're saying is in addition to the typical seasonal sequential trends Q1 over Q4, we will experience further decline in mobile devices in both revenue and units.

And from a marketshare perspective, we do expect to lose marketshare in Q1.

And how do you typically define seasonal 4Q to 1Q trial?

I think typically it is 10% to 15% approximately, but our decline will be greater than that.

Mike Walkley, Piper Jaffray.

Just building on that question, is it more because of the end markets, Latin America and the US, are more seasonally down in terms of your outlook since you have such strong share there, or are you seeing -- with significant drop-off in sales, are you seeing some inventory build here in the beginning of January?

I think it is a combination of demand for some of our products has slowed, including some of our newer products.

The competitive landscape has intensified.

So we are incorporating those things into the guidance we are giving on Q1.

It is also related to the product gaps in terms of our mix of product, in terms specifically of 3G, low-end 3G and multimedia.

Phil Cusick, Bear Stearns.

I recognize that there's a lot of incremental competition and that the product portfolio has holes.

Can you help us out here?

I think everybody on the call would like to hear about your view on the overall macro environment for handsets right now and what you're seeing on end market demand?

Thanks.

Well, in terms of the overall market, I mean we have to watch it very closely.

There's no question about it.

I think that the challenges in Motorola, and I can only speak to that, are driven largely by our product portfolio, as well as we need to be more consistent in new product introductions as we launch product, and that remains our focus.

Having said that, to your point we will be very vigilant in watching the external environment in the markets by which we compete and react accordingly.

So it sounds like you're not seeing a significant shift in demand at this point.

It is more Motorola-specific.

It is more Motorola-specific, and I guess the color I would provide at the macrolevel looking down into selecting the markets into which we sell, China we expect to be continuing to be in strong market environments.

India, Asia more generally, and certainly I would say Latin America looks like it will continue to be strong.

Western Europe and I would say United States probably not quite as robust.

More cyclically, the seasonal trends there are more pronounced.

And Tom, if I could follow up, going back to early December you talked a little bit more bullishly about the handset business overall.

Was there really a major drop-off in December, or was this weakening through the quarter?

I would say Thanksgiving through the Christmas selling season was where we experienced slower demand than we otherwise anticipated.

Edward Snyder, Charter Equity Research.

You have now announced three silicon providers and QUALCOMM announced it this morning.

I'm trying to understand how that meshes with your philosophy about platforms.

I know that there has been a lot of chat in the past about rationalizing your mobile platform design strategy to kind of emulate more like what Nokia and some of your bigger competitors are doing in terms of lowering costs, taking products that you have, both software and hardware, and leveraging them across a larger number of models.

But now you've got three suppliers of UMTS product.

Can we expect a huge number of new UMTS models?

Are you going to winnow the number of suppliers down to something more reasonable, or can we expect more of a wider variety of UMTS in the smaller unit volume?

I'm not sure how your costs are actually going to drop on your handset platforms if you're using so many different hardware than (inaudible) with different software models.

Can you help me go through that, please?

Sure.

So, first of all, we're pleased with the announcement with QUALCOMM today.

What that affords us specifically is more flexibility and optionality as it relates to specifically 3G low to mid-tier.

I think that will enable us to have lower-cost devices and a broader-based portfolio of devices and expect to have them designed or us design those chipsets into our portfolio by the end of 2008.

Having said that, Freescale will continue to be and remain an important 2G and 3G chipset supplier, and as you know, we are also implementing with TI 3G mid to high tier and potentially more than that.

So actually I think the introduction of QUALCOMM clearly for us is a good thing and is consistent with the multisource silicon strategy we have outlined and both speaks to lower-cost silicon but also a broader-based portfolio over time.

You will have three different suppliers then for just a UMTS product.

I mean last year you did under 10 million UMTS phones altogether.

You see this as a solution to get more volume in UMTS or more variety, and do you think this is going to affect your cost structure relative to someone like Nokia who uses predominantly one, maybe two suppliers max?

So the answer is yes, we do see three suppliers in UMTS for now.

We think it is a good thing both strategically and financially over time.

James Faucette, Pacific Crest Securities.

I wanted to ask two separate questions.

First, on the macro environment, how Western Europe and North America how you expect that to impact your Enterprise and Home and Networks business?

Can you give a little color on that particularly as we go into the first quarter?

And then secondly, just in terms of operating expenses on a running basis, can you give us an idea of where you are targeting as we go through 2007 R&D and sales and marketing expenses to be?

Sure.

So in Western Europe we're watching it very closely.

By the way, from a Mobile Devices standpoint, let's start there.

In Q4 we did have a slight market share decline sequentially quarter over quarter as I think Tom referenced.

That Western Europe marketplace is very important for us to be cognizant of both from Dan Maloney's business and Cathy's.

We're not seeing anything significant yet.

However, to your point, it is quite fluid, and we have to watch it closely.

In terms of the cost rationalization and reductions, I think you will see us put a particular emphasis on cost reductions in Mobile Devices and related Mobile Devices expenses as you would expect, as well as the corporate G&A.

It does not mean that will be the exclusive areas, but clearly I think those will be the areas of focus and make the most logical sense given the fact that we have to lower the breakeven of the Corporation to reflect the current conditions that we're in.

Tim Long, Banc of America Securities.

Back to the handsets, I get the strategy on silicon and software bringing other suppliers in to help reinvigorate the portfolio.

Could you talk a little bit about maybe the internal design teams as far as producing phones that are more appealing to customers?

And related to that, what is Motorola doing to restore their brand?

Obviously with market share almost getting cut in half in five or six quarters, I imagine there is some brand repair that needs to happen.

What are your thoughts there on recovering the global brand in some of the markets where the share losses have been large?

On the design team's side, we actually have some of the best talent in the industry.

And Motorola has been strong in design where we have to to your point transition that is to extend the iconic design into and including software, the user interface, and the apps and services that go with it.

We actually have some good strong design talent, and they are being incorporated in and more closely aligned with our software development efforts.

Having said that, there is more work to be done, and we will look to add talent into software and product management to get better alignment on requirements and what is expected from end-user consumers.

In terms of the brand, the brand remains remarkably strong.

I think we will be surgical with our marketing spend and look to augment the specific geographies and the new product launches to make sure Motorola stays relevant and top of mind.

Obviously I'm speaking about Mobile Devices.

In the other businesses like Home and Networks Mobility and Enterprise Mobility Solutions, the bat wings remain strong, and we will make sure that we're doing the right kind of things from a marketing and spend standpoint in that part of the portfolio to maintain and extend the perception of our brand going forward there as well.

I would just add to Greg's point about the design teams, during the quarter Greg basically, we had a central group of R&D types or engineers, over 6000 of them were consolidated at the corporate level and essentially doing work across the Corporation.

We have now embedded those engineers into each of the various businesses to which they were assigned previously, and we think that coupling will now be a lot tighter going forward.

Mike Ounjian, Credit Suisse.

We will move onto the next question from Ehud Gelblum, JPMorgan.

First, a clarification on the Freescale legal settlement.

I would imagine that that was something to allow you to include QUALCOMM and possibly Texas Instruments as ship suppliers.

But if you can explain what the settlement with Freescale was about.

And then the questions are, given that you've had a loss of scale now that seems to continue as you move into Q1 as several of your handsets models I assume are getting a little long in the tooth and also given the fact that the growth in the industry is mainly in places like India and China where you would think at least Nokia is showing that you sort of need a lot of scale to do well there, otherwise you cannot get the margins.

How can you go after these growth areas without the scale?

So how are you going to attack the sort of chicken and egg problem?

You need the scale to go after the growth.

Without that you cannot get the growth to restore the market share.

So how do you kind of restore that balance?

And then finally, Greg, as you take a look now being the new CEO -- first of all, congratulations -- how does the concept of perhaps splitting the Company up whether it is moving these three pieces that you have currently into three separate companies or maybe a piece of it like cable or possibly even within Mobile Devices?

Do you consider maybe breaking Mobile Devices up into a high-end and a low-end piece and maybe splitting -- do you consider the possibility of perhaps restructuring the Company from that perspective at all?

So let me take your questions in order.

As it relates to Freescale, actually the terms of the settlement agreement are confidential, so I will not elaborate beyond that.

In terms of scale and how to maintain relevancy given declining share, I think it is a combination of two things.

We have got to refresh the product portfolio as soon as we can.

You have heard that before, and we are working it, and we will continue to work it.

We like the fact that as an example the E8 product, the ROKR E8 was just recognized by a number of people at CES, the best of show, but it is one product.

We need more than that.

And we need to show a level of consistency around that.

I think the scale and how to compete question in theaters like China and India also reflect a go-to-market distribution and presence.

And we actually have a reasonably strong go-to-market infrastructure in India in retail in-store in-store, and we have a reasonable point of presence in go-to-market and obviously incumbent operator relationships in China.

We most recently put a gentlemen by the name of Ruey Bin Kao over all of China who had some segment responsibility without mobile devices.

He now has all of it.

He has got relationships, and we are augmenting the go-to-market support resources to maintain relevancy and the scale to compete on the distribution side in those theaters.

As it relates to the strategy of breaking up the Company, our focus is absolutely improving the profitability in Mobile Devices, and it is reinforcing and extending the category leadership in the other businesses.

As we do that, we believe all shareholders will benefit from enhancing and driving the economic value of Motorola.

I would actually just like to make three comments, and I want to be really clear on this.

While the confidential nature of the relationship between ourselves and Freescale will be maintained, you have to understand the execution of that agreement increased our flexibility, which is why Greg earlier talked about how he was excited to announce also today our relationship -- expanding our relationship with QUALCOMM and also TI.

Secondly, in terms of the long in the tooth comment, as we've already highlighted, we anticipate significant declines in both units and revenues in mobile devices in the quarter.

You have pegged that, and I would highlight the products we have recently announced really will not ship until late in the quarter.

So they will have less of a material impact in the quarter, which is why we expect to have an operating loss in the quarter.

And thirdly, in terms of scale, it's all going to start with product, especially in India and China in particular, and emerging markets more generally.

And we need to be -- not so much a producer of volume to get scale.

We have got to produce the right design points with the right features and functionality at the right costs.

And if we do that, scale will be less of an obstacle than it is perhaps today.

Hasan Imam, Thomas Weisel Partners.

This is [Robert Pickover] in for Hasan Imam.

Thanks for taking my question.

My question basically, from your comments you said that the recovery would take place in 2009 in your Mobile Devices.

When can we expect new units to be rolled out?

Can we expect them to be rolled out this year and in the second half of 2008?

So two things.

In terms of forward-looking guidance, the only guidance we are providing is Q1, and based on our current challenges, that is all we are providing at this point in time.

Referenced the $0.05 to $0.07 loss of an EPS on an operating level.

In terms of new product, we are not going to get out in front of our headlights.

We will announce it as they come and keep you updated accordingly.

But we recognize, if you boil it all down, product portfolio refresh is the most important thing we can do in improving the performance of Mobile Devices, and that is what we're focused on.

And does that include including low-end handsets in the portfolio?

I think you will see us look to expand in a couple of different tier including that one, yes.

Scott Coleman, Morgan Stanley.

Tom, can you just clarify on the Q1 earnings guidance does the $0.05 to $0.07 loss equate to the $0.05 gain from continuing operations or the $0.14 ex-onetime items that you reported for this quarter?

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Okay.

That is what I thought.

I just wanted to clarify.

And when you talk about declines in some of your existing products, the RAZR, KRZR numbers, the RAZR2 numbers all pretty good.

I'm wondering if you can help us understand where you are seeing it?

Is it primarily iDEN where Sprint is losing about 1 million iDEN customers a quarter at this point?

And if so, how do you think about managing the decline in that business which seems to be accelerating at this point?

So a couple of things.

As it relates to Sprint, we work very closely with them.

Our two teams are engaged, and we will continue to do that both on the infrastructure side, as well as the handset side.

In terms of -- what was your other question on the --?

In terms of iDEN handsets.

I think that I would just simply say it is incorporated into the guidance we're giving, and we are working pretty closely with them on the iDEN handset side.

I think we will watch it closely to your point.

In terms of overall demand, though, for our handsets, it's slowed as we referenced.

And it has slowed even with some of our nearer products.

So we have to be realistic to see that for what it is, react accordingly, adjust the cost structure and be frank about what we're going to do about it going forward.

And that is what we're doing in the guidance we're giving.

One other thought.

In Q1 we are not outlooking any significant change in iDEN demand or sell-through in the quarter relative to Q4.

Could you maybe just let us know what percentage of the business is iDEN handsets today and where that was a year ago?

No, we do not break that out or give that level of granularity.

Maynard Um, UBS.

I think you have some fixed costs related to some of your manufacturing plans, things like that, and with the lower unit volumes, there would obviously be a gross margin impact on the lower handset volumes.

How much of an impact is that having on your Q1 outlook for Mobile Devices, and can you provide an update on your strategy there in terms of other divestitures or JVs, that sort of thing?

So to your point it does have an impact on our gross margin and overall outlook for Q1.

And as we talk about looking at cost reduction opportunities and just rationalizing our approach for Mobile Devices and related activities, I think that given the lower unit volumes we are actively Rita and Tom and others looking how to optimize our manufacturing facility and going forward look to improve on the configuration of the footprint.

And I guess if I could, just looking at your product portfolio and obviously there's some gaps in your product portfolio in the higher growth segments of the market.

With the QUALCOMM products now expected probably until late this year or into next year, it sounds like you could potentially continue to lose share as we go through this year given that that gap in the portfolio.

Is that the right way to think about your share given your portfolio today, or where would I be wrong in my thinking there?

I think the logic of what you're describing, the only thing I would say is in Q1 we do, in fact, expect to lose market share.

Beyond that, I would not speculate, and we will update you on a quarter by quarter basis.

Mark McKechnie, AmTech.

I wanted to congratulate you, first, on the QUALCOMM decision and also the cash flow on the quarter.

Focusing here on the US market, US CDMA market, have you seen any impact from your design activities near-term or longer-term from the Broadcom injunction with QUALCOMM?

At this point I don't think we have seen an impact.

Obviously the QUALCOMM/Broadcom situation is something we will monitor closely.

In North America specifically in the CDMA market, I think our teams continue to do a good job.

We have to make sure that we deliver on all the product teams and new products associated with that lineup, and Bruce Brda in particular and the team in North America are chartered with doing just that.

Our market share in Q4 in North America was flat to slightly up.

That said, we know full well the competitive intensity will increase throughout '08, and we will manage it accordingly.

I would say that we feel based on our team's input relatively confident that we are well-positioned vis-a-vis the competitive landscape in terms of the QUALCOMM/Broadcom dispute.

And if I may, Tom, on operating cash flow going forward into March and June, any commentary on that?

Do you expect to burn a little cash in March, or can you keep the balance sheet under control here?

Well, we are not commenting on the second and third quarter cash flows.

But I think for those of you who knew me before I joined Motorola, if there is anything I am focused on, it is cash flow, and we're going to continue to be very vigilant and vigorous in how we attain the 20 to 30-day cash conversion cycle target by year-end, and obviously that would have a more positive than deleterious effect on our operating cash flow for the year.

Todd Koffman, Raymond James.

My question was answered.

Thank you.

Tal Liani, Merrill Lynch.

I have two questions.

The first one is just housekeeping.

I saw that you took a charge for a write-down of assets this quarter.

You do not provide disclosure.

At least in the past, you did not provide disclosure on the composition of your cash position.

I'm wondering if you can discuss your exposure to the credit risk and the way you invest your money.

That is one thing.

Second, I'm trying to better understand the substantial decline in profitability between Q4 and the first quarter.

It is a massive delta.

The question is whether it is all handsets or there is an impact on infrastructure also.

And then when you look through 2008, do you reverse it only by a new portfolio, or is it also a question of timing of shutting down some of the expenses such as manufacturing, etc.?

So how do you deal with this, and how long does it take you to go back to historical profitability?

And again, it is more the qualitative answer than the quantitative one.

In no particular order of importance, I will just comment on a couple of those, and if I miss any, maybe Greg can chime in.

In terms of the comments that both Greg and I made about significant unit and sales declines quarter-over-quarter Q4 to Q1 in Mobile Devices, that is pretty much how you explain the loss position, especially when you combine that with the portfolio that we brought in to the quarter is largely the portfolio that we will have throughout the quarter until later in the quarter when the new products we recently introduced start to get traction.

That unit volume obviously has all kinds of ramifications in terms of our absorption rate and also the mix of our products, therefore, the sales decline.

And that I think should help explain why there's a significant difference between Q4 and Q1 operating results in Mobile Devices thus for the Company because that is where the losses are being generated.

Relative to Networks, I think Greg has commented many times that our group is there and Dan Maloney, in particular, is doing actually I think a fabulous job managing that business and reallocating resources within that business, and yes, it is a challenge space, but that business did not and is not substantially subtracting from of our performance in the quarter-over-quarter analysis.

The intangible asset amortization or write-off of assets we actually don't give specifics, but it does relate to a prior acquisition that we are now in the process of rationalizing.

You will probably hear more about that as the quarter unfolds.

So the Q1 guidance is primarily Mobile Devices, and as we have talked about with Home and Networks Mobility, network infrastructure will also be down slightly, but the Q1 story is primarily Mobile Devices.

And I guess I missed one of your comments about the credit markets and debt markets.

Obviously we have a fair amount of cash, and we invest that cash, gross cash at the quarter-end was about $8.4 billion.

And you will see that spread throughout the balance sheet in terms of cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments.

We obviously are like everybody else required to mark-to-market anything that essentially is in one of those buckets.

And we did take a relatively minor charge on a mark-to-market basis related to one of our investments.

We believe that is appropriately assessed and sized, and we don't believe we have any lingering based on everything we currently know exposure in that area.

Tavis McCourt, Morgan Keegan.

First, on the intermetal $500 million of cost savings, can you talk a little bit of the timing of that being implemented?

And then secondly, on Mobile Devices I think you mentioned market share in Q4 being down in Western Europe but flat to up slightly in North America.

Can you comment on Latin America being the other big geography for you guys?

Yes, so from a marketshare perspective in Q4 for Mobile Devices, we were down in EMEA.

We were down in Latin America, but still maintained a strong position.

North America was actually slightly up, but effectively flat to slightly up.

China was down.

So that is kind of the composite key regions.

In terms of the $500 million and attacking the cost structure, we have already begun sizing it and identifying what needs to be done.

As I mentioned, we will particularly look at Mobile Devices in Mobile Devices related areas as well as the corporate G&A, and we will move swiftly in that regard.

I think somewhere in the talking points earlier, you heard the word urgent uttered by Greg.

You should couple that with now.

Richard Windsor, Nomura.

I was wondering if you could comment on Enterprise Mobility.

Over the last year or so, you have managed to very well buck the trend in North America where a lot of your competitors have seen some profit warnings.

What has enabled you to be able to do that, and what is the outlook for you being able to continue to do that given the cloud in the economic environment?

I have to compliment Kathy Paladino and Gene Delaney in their respective segments who have done a phenomenal job, and the former Symbol associates, and we will get away from using that, but I will call them out in this regard.

The Symbol acquisition and integration could not have gone better.

We had hoped for that as we combine these two organizations, we would take the intellectual property, the product portfolio, the specific vertical applications to the mobile computing product line and put it with Motorola's bat wings and added distribution, and it would be a one plus one equals three combination.

And it has turned out to be successful at this point in time.

We have had very good talent and executive retention.

Boris and the engineering team as well, as Ray Martino, the CTO, are just doing a great job.

So I think it is the stickiness of the solutions that we deliver there, the width and breadth of the product portfolio, and the fact that in mobile computing they have expanded share.

On public safety and [Mark Moon] in North America, just specifically speaking to North America, the team has done an excellent job.

We have very significantly strong customer relationships.

We have been investing in the R&D side to further differentiate our incumbency in product portfolio, and it is two of the highlighted areas in the whole Motorola portfolio, I have to tell you.

And we will look to maintain that and stay focused on it to see if 2008 can be equally successful.

But we're focused on that area, and it is a fantastic segment.

Will you continue to gain share with the Symbol asset?

Again, we're not going to forecast specific share expansion in '08, but what I will tell you is that I think we're going to continue to grow that business in topline, and I think we will also have double-digit operating margin, and the team is doing a great job in investing and prioritizing the R&D spend and getting gross margin yield on every dollar of R&D spend.

Mark Sue, RBC Capital Markets.

Yes or no, will Mobile Devices reach breakeven this year?

We're not providing any guidance beyond Q1, and we will take it on a quarter by quarter basis.

So obviously we have our hands full, and we've forecasted a sharp revenue and unit decline and a market share loss in Q1.

But that is the only thing we're giving at this point in time.

And in terms of headcount, is 59,000 kind of the right number that we should think about?

We do not have a targeted headcount number per se.

Candidly we're focused more on the dollars and the associated things that drive the dollar cost.

That $500 million is absolutely our focus area, and we're going to go aggressively get it, and we have already begun to get it.

I would not sync it up with a headcount number per se.

Operator, we will take our last question.

Brian Modoff, Deutsche Bank.

A couple of questions.

One, and this is not giving guidance, but would you kind of give us a range of what you think you need to do in volumes of handsets in millions of units to be at a breakeven point?

That is assuming you have implemented these additional cost savings.

And then would you venture to give us an idea of what you think handset unit volumes will grow this year for the industry overall?

Well, I know most would really love us to give very detailed ASP unit and gross margin guidance.

We are just not in a position on this call to set those expectations.

I did not ask about ASP unit and growth.

I asked about what level of production do you need to be at to be breakeven in handsets?

Can you give us a range at least of what kind of (multiple speakers) that is post this most recent incremental cost cuts.

We're really not going to go down that path.

I am sorry.

If you want to ask a different question, go for it.

That is okay.

Thanks.

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