Aug 16, 2011 08:16 GMT  ·  By

Soon, Motorola Mobility will be part of Google, the two announced on Monday. The Internet giant agreed to acquire the mobile phone maker for $12.5 billion, as part of a deal that already saw the green light from their board of directors and which is now subject to regulatory approvals.

The mobile industry already reacted to the deal, and most of the comments were positive, it seems.

Mobile phone makers and wireless carriers alike tend to agree that the deal is a beneficial one of the Android ecosystem, and for the market as a whole.

While US carriers reportedly remained silent towards the announcement, European wireless services providers said they were supporting the deal.

“I believe it is always good to have very strong players and very integrated ones,” Orange Senior Vice President Yves Maitre said, AllThingsD reports.

“We welcome strong competitors to Apple, and Motorola and Google will be this type of very strong competitor.”

Leading mobile phone makers such as HTC, LG, Samsung or Sony Ericsson also welcomed the proposed acquisition.

Just as Google said that it remains committed to keeping Android an open platform, the company's partners are confident in its ability to drive the ecosystem upwards even after purchasing Motorola Mobility.

“We welcome the news of today’s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem,” Peter Chou, CEO, HTC, reportedly stated.

“Samsung Electronics welcomes Google’s proposed acquisition of Motorola, which is aimed at protecting the patents owned by the Android camp, the acquisition won’t affect Samsung’s mobile business,” Kevin Kim, Samsung’s spokesman, said.

The purchase of Motorola Mobility should help Google better position itself in the battle against Apple's iOS platform on the mobile market.

At the same time, it might prove to be a beneficial deal for other operating systems such as Windows Phone and webOS too, provided that handset vendors will reconsider their position towards these mobile OSes.