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The International Telecommunications Union has reached a tentative agreement on standards for high-speed modems that blend competing technology developed by Motorola Inc. and 3Com Corp.’s U.S. Robotics division, according to Schaumburg-based Motorola. Analysts say sales of the two companies’ 56 kilobit-per-second modems, introduced earlier this year, have been slow because potential buyers have been waiting for resolution of the incompatible technology issue. The ITU is expected to announce the official determination of the standards in late January, and Motorola expects to release software upgrades based on the standards for its software modem and modem chip sets in the first quarter of 1998.
