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...Secretary of State Warren Christopher warned the Japanese that the U.S. expects them to do more to open up their markets and reduce their trade surplus with the U.S. By the weekend they had done something: an agreement was announced that will allow Motorola broader access to Japan's cellular-telephone market. Christopher's next stop was China, where talks on renewing that country's most-favored-nation trading status got off to a rocky start. China's recent crackdown on dissidents, Christopher said, "certainly bodes ill" for chances of renewal. Premier Li Peng told Christopher, "China will never accept...
Five years ago, MCI Communications was approached by two eager entrepreneurs with an offer to take a 20% stake in a risky venture. Their plan was to transform a local radio-dispatch system, used primarily by taxicabs and truckers, into a state-of-the-art cellular-telephone network. MCI declined the $40 million opportunity, preferring to concentrate on its core business: long- distance service...
...optic or coaxial cable, portable phones, along with pagers and beepers, will be powerful extensions of the electronic network. Companies ranging from AT&T and Motorola to Time Warner and Bell South are racing to develop their own new portable-telephone systems, which will one day compete with existing cellular networks and traditional wall-jack phones. The wireless market is expected to increase sixfold in the next 10 years, as the number of portable-phone users grows from 15 million today to 90 million...
...grand plan may not go altogether smoothly either. In Nextel, MCI is buying into promising but yet unproved technology. To rebuild the dispatch system, called specialized mobile radio, or SMR, into a communications network that can compete with cellular, Nextel and its partners will have to invest at least $1.8 billion. And even then there is no guarantee that SMR will be able to match or catch cellular, an already proved technology with about 13 million subscribers. In addition, cable and phone companies are developing so-called personal communications networks, or PCNS, a futuristic portable-phone service that is expected...
...little choice. AT&T's $12.6 billion acquisition of McCaw Cellular Communications, which is still awaiting approval by regulators, put sufficient competitive pressure on MCI that it went out and found its own wireless partner. In an ironic twist, MCI exited the cellular-phone business eight years ago by selling its licenses to McCaw for $120 million. The company is also financially pressed to reduce the $5 billion in fees that it pays to the local Baby Bells for the right to connect to the local telephone network. A wireless system would allow MCI largely to bypass the Baby Bells...