It got the Reagan administration to negotiate telecommunications agreements with Japan that were then used to ensure Motorola's access to the cellular market there.

Sometimes they were real outlaws, ignoring international telecommunications agreements.

The institute calculates that a successful telecommunications agreement could save consumers $100 million a year over the next decade.

Series of Agreements The United States had reached a series of telecommunications agreements with Japan in the mid-1980's.

They have also helped in telecommunications agreements and economy issues around the world.

Mr. Morrison spoke in a telephone interview yesterday from Amsterdam, on his way to Moscow to negotiate new telecommunications agreements.

These two agreements on public procurement and telecommunications agreements are a consequence of it.

The penalties are being contemplated under a reprisal announced last month against Japan for its failure to honor a telecommunications agreement in 1985.

The telecommunications agreement - allowing foreign control of cell phone networks, Internet providers and other "value-added services" - came as a surprise.

The telecommunications agreement was the sure signal that the era of such one-sided concessions is over.