Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!telecom-request From: olling@trc.jnoc.go.jp (Cliff Olling) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: User's Evaluation of Handheld Cellular: Fujitsu vs Motorola Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 06:49:40 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: Cliff Olling Organization: Japan National Oil Corporation, Chiba City, Japan Lines: 22 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 220, Message 1 of 10 In article (Craig Ibbotson) writes: > The factory where they make the MicroTac is next door to my building, > and I think it is fantastic to see such high-quality products coming > out of a U.S. factory with American factory workers. These people are > average Joe's like you and me, but they are competing tooth and nail > with the Japanese. Finally, a U.S. manufacturer who can do it right. When I was coming back to Tokyo after skiing on Monday, I noticed the (Japanese) guy next to me on the the Shinkansen had a MicroTac. In fact he dropped it on the floor a time or two :-). I asked him why he didn't buy a Japanese-made phone. He said that the NTT competition was too expensive, and that most people don't care that the MicroTac's not made by a Japanese company. Sorry this is so brief, but my Japanese isn't yet up to an in-depth market analysis survey :-). Clifford Olling Japan National Oil Corporation $@@PL}8xCD(J Technology Research Center $@@PL}3+H/5;=Q(J Chiba City, Japan olling@jnoc.go.jp $@KkD%K\6?1X(J 24hrs/day=>81+472-73-5831