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From the Monday August 7 issue of Electronic News

NTT: Suppliers Must Use Tron Operating System
By Boyd Harnell

Tokyo - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) last week said that
its ISDN and digital switching network suppliers will be required to use 
the Japanese-developed Tron operating system - a move opposed by U.S. Trade
Representative Carla Hills as a potential trade barrier against American
equipment.

Ms. Hills' agency, in a report to Congress last May on major trade barriers,
had said any Japanese attempt to make the Tron operating system mandatory
in procurements would bar U.S. firms in the market.  The report said Japanese
telecommunications firms had a long lead in developing equipment using
the Tron software to be ready for mandatory Tron requirements.

In what was perceived to be an attempt to show the Tron requirement does not
discriminate against foreign suppliers, NTT officials described Tron as an
open architecture system that allows for all equipment firms to interface 
their products into the new ISDN and digital networks.

As evidence they said a foreign firm, Northern Telecom, is participating in
the NTT joint development program of equipment using the new Tron operating
system.  Others are Fujitsu, Hitachi, Matsushita, Mitsubishi, NEC, Oki and
Toshiba.

[The article continues with a description of NTT ISDN switches and some other
similar stuff.]