Nippon Motorola took advantage of the publicity over trade with the US clarify its own stance and press for the reallocation of radio waves in the Tokyo metropolitan area: currently it cannot sell its car telephones in the Kanto eastern Japan region because the phones operate on bands available only in Kansai area of western Japan, but Japanese telecommunications officials claim there are no free bandwidths in the capital city area; Nippon Motorola president Rick Younts also complained that the procedure for obtaining approval to expand its mobile radio service system was taking far too long to complete.
