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                       GI Must Recall Boxes

               New York -- Motorola Inc.'s newly acquired
               General Instrument Corp. unit has had to
               recall at least 37,000 of its popular "DCT-2000"
               digital set-tops because of a defective
               component that made them inoperable, cable
               sources said.

               The boxes in question were shipped to cable
               operators in recent weeks, and they were
               manufactured in the fourth quarter of last year,
               Motorola senior vice president David Robinson
               has confirmed.

               GI has the identification numbers of the faulty
               boxes, and earlier this month it began notifying
               cable operators that had received them about the
               problem.

               The notice said the boxes "are not able to be
               fielded due to a performance issue with the Intel
               [Corp.] flash component" and, as a result, "they
               will not be able to properly receive code
               downloads."

               GI said the boxes had to come back for a
               "memory performance upgrade," one operator
               source said, reading from the notice.

               - 1/14/00
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