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...visit to Tokyo, 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...
...emerging market for wireless communications. While wireless will not make up the backbone of the information superhighway, whose basic construction material remains fiber-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...
Richard Liebhaber, MCI's chief technology strategist, notes that the company is not alone in its support of Nextel. In addition to MCI, Nextel is backed by Motorola, Comcast, Northern Telecom, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone and Matsushita. "We're part of the telephone version of a dream team," says Liebhaber, dismissing Nextel naysayers. After all, once there was another start-up company that began as a radio dispatcher for truckers and also defied the odds: MCI itself...
Last summer Motorola again protested the slow pace, leading the White House back to bargaining with Japan. The U.S. wants guarantees that the new system will be up two years earlier than IDO's projected completion date in March 1997. In the view of IDO president Takeo Tsukada, that would lead his still unprofitable company to "certain bankruptcy." Motorola says anything less would keep it out of the cellular boom expected to start in April, when new regulations permit Japanese consumers to own phones instead of just renting them. Tokyo, meanwhile, insists that the remaining tangles are just a business...
...Clinton Administration has decided to impose sanctions on Japan for violating a 1989 trade agreement that would have allowed cellular-phone giant Motorola the same access to the lucrative Tokyo-Nagoya market that Japanese companies enjoy. Japan denies that they have violated the agreement. The President did not foreclose the possibility that American sanctions might be the first volley in a trade war with Japan. Earlier this month, talks between the nations broke down...