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...dispute began in earnest when Illinois-based Motorola complained to the U.S. Government last April that Japan was reneging on part of a 1985 agreement to open up its telecommunications market. After reviewing the accord, Hills determined that the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was requiring stricter licensing procedures for foreign companies than for domestic competitors and would not assign any radio frequencies for Motorola- produced equipment in the Tokyo area. Hills declared that if the ministry did not change its position by July 10, she would slap punitive duties on a range of Japanese products. After ten days...
...Hope celebrity golf tournament and managing to squeeze in speeches to five special- interest groups. And just after New Year's Day, 18 Senators and their wives were flown to Scottsdale, Ariz., to play in a charity tennis tournament with executives of Dow Chemical, Citibank, Morgan Stanley and Motorola. The next weekend another group of Senators was schussing down the slopes in Park City, Utah, courtesy of American Express, Delta Airlines and U S West...
...some products fail to sell in Japan, even though the market is opening up. U.S. sales of telecommunications equipment in Japan, for example, reached $263.3 million last year, up from $106 million in 1985. Yet the U.S. is basing its current trade complaints at least partly on the problems Motorola has faced in getting frequency clearance in Tokyo for the cellular telephones it is selling in Japan; Tokyo considers the grievance too small to justify the hubbub surrounding it. Observes Peter Tasker, British author of The Japanese: "Japan is not alone in some of these disputes. Try selling telecommunications...
...first mobile phones that came out were fine -- as long as you had a pack mule to carry them. They were a long way from a James Bond-style phone that would be small enough to fit under a pillow or in a vest pocket. Now Motorola has made a giant step toward a truly mobile phone. The company last week introduced its Micro TAC Personal Telephone, which is about the size of a checkbook. It is 13.5 in. long and weighs just 12.3 oz. The phone comes in two models that carry price tags...
Major players in the RISC-chip business include Sun Microsystems, MIPS, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola. Last week Intel, the world's largest microprocessor manufacturer, put its seal of approval on the workstation revolution by introducing a million-transistor chip that incorporates RISC technology...