Much of Motorola's pounding by Wall Street and the media came down to its lethargy in introducing a digital cellular phone.

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Much of Motorola's pounding by Wall Street and the media these last few years came down to its lethargy in introducing a digital cellular phone.

FORBES: Motorola inside

Furthermore digital cellular handset prices have plunged, and many cellular carriers offer paging along with phone service.

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In 1993, NTT DoCoMo, Japan's principal mobile-phone carrier, opted for a technical standard called Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), which was incompatible with the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), the standard adopted by most of the rest of the world.

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