Motorola 8167 - Timeport Cell Phone User Manual page 6

Gary L. Tooker
President and
Chief Operating
Officer
additional cost adjustments in the event of changes in business conditions. At the
same time, we see continued opportunities to provide our customers with products
that enable them to be more efficient.
Motorola traditionally has been able to build on its strengths and gain against its
competitors during low points in the economic cycle, and we plan to continue our
investment in research and development.
Global Expansion Our customer base has become more global, and we are
expanding accordingly. Non-U.S. revenues as a percentage of the total
reached 44% in 1990, compared with 25% in 1985, on an international
market basis. In the pages that follow, you will see how electronic products
from Motorola are bringing the world closer together. Among the highlights
of our global achievements in 1990:
•In Japan, our'MicroTAC™ personal cellular telephone won the Foreign Product
Design Award from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Our speech
coder technology was selected as the official standard for digital cellular in Japan.
We delivered the 10 millionth microcontroller to Sony for use in its line of 8 mm
camcorders, and the 3 millionth controller to Canon for its EOS camera family.
•In Asia, we opened a major new semiconductor facility in Hong Kong, provided
the radio system for the Asian Games in China, and shipped more than 500,000
pagers to Taiwan. We began supplying CT-2 digital cordless phones in Singapore
and won awards for cellular phone systems in Indonesia and China. In India, our
Motorola Blue Star joint venture produced its first data communications products.
•In Europe, we will supply the communications system for the Channel Tunnel
linking England and France. We developed major elements of the Pan-European
Digital Cellular System. In emerging Eastern European markets, we sold two-way
radios in Romania and Yugoslavia, and cellular telephones in Hungary.
•In the United States, we moved toward completion of a nationwide voice and data
communications vehicle location network and unveiled our technology for
Wireless In-Building Networks.
These are only a few examples of how Motorola is serving new customers in a
changing world. You will see many more throughout this report.
New Technologies In addition to new technologies developed by our individual
businesses, we continued research on systems that draw on our strengths
throughout Motorola. One such example is the proposed Iridium™ global
personal communications system, which has the potential to allow any human
being on Earth — whether on land, at sea or in the air — to communicate with