Motorola's trade win has hollow ring as Japan Inc. matches phone innovation

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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) announces the world's smallest portable telephone, undermining Motorola Inc's technological edge in the Japanese portable telephone market. NTT's telephone will go on sale in Japan six months before Motorola introduces its smallest portable telephone, the Micro TAC. Previously, the Motorola telephone was blocked from distribution in Japan's most populous areas, which almost touched off a trade war in 1989. Japan eventually conceded, allowing Motorola to make its portable telephone service available throughout Japan, but by 1991, when Motorola's support arrangements are in place, NTT will have erased Motorola's technological lead.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Product development, Product information, Cellular telephones, Wireless telephones, Telecommunications equipment industry, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corp., Cellular telephone equipment industry, Motorola Inc., MOT, Cellular Radio

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U.S. suspends negotiations with Japan over satellite trade, U.S. official says

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An unnamed US official says the US has broken off talks with Japan over trade in satellite equipment after no progress was made in the negotiations. These talks are part of the Super 301 provisions of the 1988 Trade Act. The US wants Japan to open its bidding on satellite projects to include US manufacturers such as Ford Aerospace, Hughes Aircraft and General Electric. Japan defends its position by claiming that satellites are research and development projects rather than commercial ventures. The potential contracts for Japan's latest satellite project could be worth as much as $640 million.

Radio & TV communications equipment, International aspects, Satellite communications, International trade, Aerospace industry, Negotiations, Satellites (Astronomical bodies), Satellites, Negotiation, Competitive Bidding

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