TECHNOLOGY - April 4, 1994

Motorola to Supply Equipment in Japan: Motorola of the United States will enter Japan’s market of personal handy phones (PHPs), a new mobile phone technology with a large potential market, the Tokyo financial daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported. Motorola will supply terminals and other equipment to Japan’s telecommunications giant, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., for use in its planned field tests to start this month, the paper said. Personal handy phones are a technology halfway between a cordless telephone and a cellular telephone, with more range than the former and less cost than the latter. While lighter and smaller than cellular phones, the primary downside of PHPs is that they cannot be used from a moving car or other vehicle. NEC Corp. and other Japanese telecommunications companies will also supply their products to NTT in the trial project.