Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: mcvax!jyu.fi!otto@uunet.uu.net (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Nokia Mobira vs. Motorola Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 89 18:08:37 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: "Otto J. Makela" Organization: Grand Hall of Justice, Mega-City One Lines: 14 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 336, message 2 of 6 Item heard on the evening news: Nokia Mobira cellular phones (some models ?) have been blocked from import by the US Customs Office into the US, because Motorola has claimed that Nokia has copied proprietary/patented chips used on the phones. Can anyone at Nokia Mobira/US, Motorola, US Customs, or anywhere else give more information on this, since this was all got from a two-minute spot on the news ? * * * Otto J. Makela (otto@jyu.fi, MAKELA_OTTO_@FINJYU.BITNET) * * * * * * * * Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 2400/1200/300) * * Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE * * * * freopen("/dev/null","r",stdflame); * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *