Radio Vertical Markets

This article has been updated to reflect the newer radios. - 05/01/2024


Motorola’s diverse portable two-way radios enable you to coordinate and communicate efficiently with your mobile workforce. Ideal for use by a variety of industries looking to remain competitive in today’s market, Motorola radios deliver a high-quality communication solution designed to increase efficiency, productivity, and worker safety while lowering operating costs.

Make it easy for all staff, from line workers to maintenance to security, to collaborate as a unified work team while increasing productivity and worker safety. The right two-way radio can empower an entire organization by providing real-time information to your workforce.

This vertical market guide can help you pick the proper radio for your industry.


Construction: Increase Efficiency & Reduce Costs

With material costs increasing, profit margins decreasing, and the battle for bids at an all-time high, construction contractors are looking for innovative ways to compete. As the economy continues to tighten, customers demand lower costs and tighter schedules and even prefer contractors who employ “green” construction services.

Whether your operation involves general industrial construction, commercial and residential construction, infrastructure projects like roads, highways, bridges, and tunnels, or you are an electrical, plumbing, carpentry, or HVAC professional, Motorola has the right-sized and right-featured radio for your unique business. Each radio family offers a cost-effective solution over “pay as you go” technology with no service fees and no dependence upon cell tower location.

Recommend Radios for Construction

  1. Motorola R2 2-Way Radios
  2. Motorola CP100D 2-Way Radios
  3. RCA RDR2750 Base Station


We highly recommend the R2 two-way radio from Motorola, it is one of the most durable radios that we sell, in fact, it's our #1 top seller, especially for the construction industry.

The CP100D is a second choice, but the CP100D has a display that we do not recommend for the construction industry. Since people in construction are constantly dropping their radios, a radio display is not recommended because no matter how durable a radio is, a display is a weak link and that can crack if the radio is constantly being dropped.

Education: Take School Safety to the Next Level

Two-Way business radios are the perfect tool to increase safety and security at your school. Radios will equip each educator and staff member with the ability to coordinate class, events and students more efficiently. Give staff and faculty constant access to critical information and enhance safety and efficiency in your schools.

Two-way radios have long been an essential tool for schools with uses in directing traffic, connecting administrators and staff, maintenance, janitorial, and more. In recent years, however, radios are becoming even more critical as part of emergency preparedness plans and as a tool to respond to safety concerns.

“Universities are in the people business, and we have to sell the safety of our campus. MOTOTRBO provides reliable communications that help us keep our campus safe.” — Director of Campus Security, North Park University

Recommend Radios for Education

  1. Motorola CP100D 2-Way Radios
  2. Motorola R2 2-Way Radios
  3. Motorola BPR40 2-Way Radios
  4. Motorola DTR700 2-Way Radios

We highly recommend the CP100D two-way radio from Motorola, we recommend this radio because you're not going to get any more bang for your buck, and when it comes to education, funding sometimes is critical.

If you require a rougher more durable radio, and if your budget allows, the R2 is our second choice. All other recommended radios have their positives and negatives, please call us for any assistance we can offer.

Hospitality: Team communications for a five-star guest experience

Instant Team Communications for hospitality offers a flexible platform, so your teams stay connected and informed no matter their device or network. They can communicate instantly and securely via push-to-talk (PTT) between smartphones, radios, computers, landlines or any other devices. You can also augment your communications system with a rich application ecosystem for additional operational context and intelligence. Now you can select the right device for each worker, confident they can communicate and collaborate with each other. Visiting event teams and contractors who bring their devices can also become part of the Team Communication system, ensuring guests receive great service from staff who have instant access to information, on the spot. The Team Communications platform unifies your teams and helps to send guest satisfaction scores soaring.

Improve workplace efficiency with Unified Team Communications for any Hospitality team member: General Manager, Maintenance, Guest Services Manager, Staff.

Recommend Radios for Hospitality

  1. Motorola CP100D 2-Way Radios
  2. Motorola SL300 2-Way Radios
  3. Motorola BPR40 2-Way Radios

We highly recommend the CP100D two-way radio from Motorola, we recommend this radio because you're not going to get any more bang for your buck, and it has tremendous features.

Second choice would be the SL300 which is a bit slimmer and lighter, supervisors in the hospitality industry love the SL300 because it's so slim and very lightweight to carry. The SL300 radios are capable of digital, were some of the other radios listed are not. Please call us for any assistance.

Manufacturing: Faster Communications for Safer Manufacturing

Smart manufacturers can seize the opportunities and hurdle the challenges of the modern marketplace with Team Communications. Your personnel can connect instantly – on any device, on any network, anywhere – utilizing the same radio talk groups as your radio users. A wide variety of applications from the industry’s largest two-way radio developer network help keep employees safe, boost efficiency, and minimize downtime.

Manufacturing and warehouse employees are often spread throughout a large area, which can make communications difficult and time-consuming. Two-way radios provide instant communications through your entire operation, which not only saves time and creates more productivity, this also improves workplace safety.

Improve workplace efficiency with Unified Team Communications for any manufacturing team member: Executive, Dispatch, Plant Manager, Production.

Improve workplace efficiency with Unified Team Communications for any Hospitality team member: General Manager, Maintenance, Guest Services Manager, Staff.

Recommend Radios for Manufacturing

  1. Motorola R2 2-Way Radios
  2. Motorola CP100D 2-Way Radios

We highly recommend the R2 two-way radio from Motorola, we recommend this radio because it's one of the toughest radios that money can buy.

Second choice would be the CP100D, just as rough and tough as the R2, but does not come in a digital format. Manufacturing usually involves very thin particles being introduced into the air, these two-way radios are pretty much airtight and are extremely difficult to be affected by microscopic airborne particles. This has been a major problem for other cheaper radios, where microscopic particles get inside the radio and eventually destroy the radio. Please call us for any assistance.

Property Management: Improve Teamwork, Efficiency and Flow

Two-way radios can help you communicate better and are the perfect tool to reduce labor costs and increase the productivity of employees at your property. Portable 2-Way Radios will enhance the overall guests experience by providing quicker response to guest needs, coordinate housekeeping and valet more effectively, and equip your front desk with the tools to efficiently operate your business.

With Two-way radios, building managers, maintenance technicians, groundskeepers and security personnel can respond quickly to tenant needs or emergencies. Two-way radios minimize costs and enhance tenant satisfaction. Two-way radios for buildings are less expensive and more reliable than using cellular networks. And, once they’re set up, you don’t have to pay any monthly fees to use the network.

Front Desk, Maintenance, and other staff members can communicate together as a group and share instant communications. You can respond to guest easier and co-workers more effectively with reliable communications.

Improve workplace efficiency with Unified Team Communications for any manufacturing team member: Executive, Dispatch, Plant Manager, Production.

Improve workplace efficiency with Unified Team Communications for any Hospitality team member: General Manager, Maintenance, Guest Services Manager, Staff.

Recommend Radios for Property Management

  1. Motorola R2 2-Way Radios
  2. Motorola CP100D 2-Way Radios
  3. Motorola BPR40 2-Way Radios

We highly recommend the R2 two-way radio from Motorola, we recommend this radio because it's one of the toughest radios that money can buy.

Second choice would be the CP100D, just as rough and tough as the R2, but does not come in a digital format. The other two radios, the CP100D and the BPR40, are good radios, but we find they don't hold up as well when it comes to property management. Please call us for any assistance.

Restaurants: Better Teamwork, Better Flow

Portable business two-way radios are the perfect tool to reduce labor costs and increase productivity at your restaurant and increase customer satisfaction. Not only can 2-Way Radios enhance customer experience, but help increase table turns, meal readiness and help coordinate your kitchen and wait staff.

Restaurants using Two-way radios have found that radios quickly pay for themselves in increased efficiency and lessened time to turn tables. They are often considerably less expensive and provide more functionality that other systems. Restaurants are usually relatively small, so Two-way radio range is not a big concern - practically any radio would provide adequate coverage for even the largest practices.

Better communications between your manager, your host or hostess, bartenders, valet and kitchen staff, will increase the customer experience and keep them coming back.

Recommend Radios for Restaurants

  1. Motorola BPR40 2-Way Radios

The BPR40 is a good choice for outside the restaurant, like valet, where it's an outside environment and the radio needs to be a little tougher. Please call us for any assistance.

Retail: Improving efficiency and productivity

From department stores to large, warehouse-style stores and chains, it's why more retailers purchase Motorola Portable Radios. They're convenient, economical, and easy to use and the key to ensuring customer satisfaction in retail establishments. Commercial business radios are the perfect tool to elevate the customer experience and increase productivity at your retail location. Radios will equip each employee with instant communication, providing a more responsive and efficient customer experience.

Better communications between your manager, floor employees and your stockroom personnel, will increase the customer experience and keep them coming back.

Recommend Radios for Retail

  1. Motorola R2 2-Way Radios
  2. Motorola CP100D 2-Way Radios
  3. Motorola BPR40 2-Way Radios

We highly recommend the Motorola R2 two-way radios because of its durability, all the radios on the recommended list will work for retail, and we have listed them in the order of toughness and durability.

All these radios will work and function to increase your productivity, it is just a matter of how adorable do you want them to be.

Security: Flexibility for more secure, streamlined operations

Companies don’t hire private security firms without a reason. Even though the stated goal may be to secure a building or protect property, underlying that is the expectation that the customer’s personnel and your team go home to their families at the end of the day. For those situations where seconds can mean the difference between triumph and tragedy, nothing is faster than push-to-talk. Motorola Solutions offers a portfolio of cybersecurity services to our customers to ensure that the confidentiality, integrity and availability of their operations remains at the highest levels possible over time.

Improve workplace efficiency with Unified Team Communications for any Private Security team member: Property Manager, IT Manager, Security Guard, Dispatch.

Recommend Radios for Security

  1. Motorola R2 2-Way Radios
  2. Motorola CP100D 2-Way Radios

Because security can be a rough environment, we will only recommend the Motorola R2 two-way radio, and the CP100D. Both the R2 and the CP100D comes with a digital format option. No other models are recommended because they will not hold up under the wear and tear that is demanded in the security environment.

Transportation: Unified communications for wider operational impact

Every extra delivery you make in a working day sharpens your competitive edge. Consignments arrive at exactly the right moment and service becomes a competitive advantage. Smart analytics and closer collaboration – person-to-person, machine to-machine – allow real-time inventory management and process automation. Operations-critical data applications, such as work order ticket management, track orders, help your managers confirm deliveries and keep tabs on workflows to pinpoint problems before they place delivery at risk. Deadlines can be met consistently and errors can be eliminated, making fleets more reliable.

When you interconnect every worker, you streamline and automate your processes, better manage risk and respond to customers quickly. Improve the safety of your entire workforce and enhance security at your facility with the right communication solutions for you.

Improve workplace efficiency with Unified Team Communications for any Transportation & Logistics team member: Owner/President, Dispatch, Fleet Manager, Driver.

Recommend Radios for Transportation

  1. Motorola R2 2-Way Radios
  2. Motorola CP100D 2-Way Radios

Just like security, transportation would be considered a rough environment, and only the best built and durable radios can function properly and on a regular basis with little downtime. We will only recommend the Motorola R2 two-way radio, and the CP100D. Both the R2 and the CP100D comes with a digital format option. No other radio models are recommended because they will not hold up under the wear and tear that is demanded in the transportation environment.