The decision to separate its ailing mobile division from the more profitable home-networks segment was an attempt by Motorola to beef up its lagging handset platform.
The decision to separate its ailing mobile division from the more profitable home networks (Internet modems) segment was a resuscitation attempt: The Schaumburg, Ill.-based company has not had a handset hit since the Razr, which was more than three years ago.
While the four-year-old Hulu, a joint venture of the parents of Fox, ABC, NBC and the investment firm Providence Equity Partners, is profitable, retransmission agreements with big distributors are much more profitable for the networks.
Nokia's handset business was sold to Microsoft in April so that it could focus on its more profitable units such as network equipment.
Webb said the closure of Britain's ageing oilfields would endanger more profitable ones because pipeline networks were often connected.
Color screens and cameras are expected to drive holiday buying, and that's good news for carriers who look for these features to make their networks more profitable by luring customers to buy special services.
A study for America's Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 2005 found that banks with bigger branch networks were more successful at increasing revenues and more profitable than those with smaller networks.
Lloyds Banking Group has been ordered to help the 631-strong TSB branch network become more profitable under a series of measures set out by the Office of Fair Trading to make the offshoot a stronger high street competitor.
As users become unresponsive to the ads, the system is supposed to switch in a more profitable combination of layout and networks.
"The right-sizing of Chrysler's dealer network contributes to more profitable, better performing dealers and better customer service," Chrysler said.
