International Business

Motorola Paging to Become Industry Standard in China: The Schaumburg, Ill.-based company said it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government to make its high-speed paging technology the national standard there. Financial details of the preliminary agreement with China’s Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications were not released. Motorola Inc.’s Flex paging system lets paging companies put more users on each channel, the company said, and is used in 70% of the world’s largest paging markets. The paging market in China is expected to grow to more than 34 million customers by 1999, analysts said. Since 1992, Motorola has invested $1.2 billion in China through wholly-owned and joint-venture enterprises, the company said.