In early July — mere days after Google lost out to a consortium led by Apple and Microsoft — Andrew Rubin, the company's senior vice president of mobile, reached out to Sanjay Jha, the chief executive of Motorola Mobility, to discuss "the possible impact of and potential responses" to the Nortel purchase.
But Ralph de la Vega, chief executive of AT&T Mobility, said that the company was not reacting to T-Mobile and that Next had been in the works for a while.
Sanjay Jha, the chief executive of Motorola Mobility, who has been responsible for turning the company around, will remain as the unit's top executive.
"We view it like any other investment we make," said Ralph de la Vega, president and chief executive of AT&T Mobility, the company's wireless operations.
Ralph de la Vega, the chief executive of AT&T Mobility, told me he just wants to offer customers as many models as possible and let them decide.
Ralph de la Vega, chief executive of AT&T Mobility, said 70 percent of the people on tiered data plans were paying for the more expensive options.
16:58 And now Sanjay Jha, chief executive of Motorola Mobility, the very clever guy who has got rich from getting Google to up its bid to buy his company last year.
Mr. Page also announced that Sanjay Jha, the chief executive of Motorola Mobility who steered the company's recent turnaround and oversaw the introduction of the the original Droid smartphone and Motorola's first tablet computer, would step down.
Ralph de la Vega, chief executive of AT&T Mobility, said more phones in the coming months were likely to combine touch screens with a keypad or slide-out keyboard to appease customers who want the convenience of both.
Ralph de la Vega, chief executive of AT&T Mobility, said during Tuesday's earnings call that about 60 percent of smartphone customers were paying for tiered data plans, and of those, 70 percent were choosing the higher-priced plans.
