Motorola Inc sees an enormous blossoming of its radio communications business in the 1990s as new opportunities open up, and it now says that in the next five years it will start a worldwide electronic mail and data service for portable computer users, with the US version of the one-way service to be ready by the end of this year. Motorola’s Radio Paging Division in Boynton Beach, Florida told United Press International that the service, dubbed electronic mail broadcasting to a roving computer, will feature a one-way $400 wireless receiver that attaches to a portable laptop, notebook or pocket computer. The company sees it being used for data broadcasting applications such as sports scores and share prices as well as personal electronic mail. The subscription price for the information service is put at $100 a month. The system will initially install radio transmitters around the country but looks to be bouncing signals off a low-earth satellite by 1996 or so.
