TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Motorola, Loral-Qualcomm, TRW Win Satellite Licenses: In a move that could turn up the competitive heat in the burgeoning wireless field, the Federal Communications Commission said Motorola Satellite Communications Inc., Loral/Qualcomm and TRW Inc. can pursue their costly, high-risk ventures to provide mobile phone, paging and data transmission services around the globe through a network of low-orbiting satellites. Estimates of the first-year cost of launching and operating each system range from $1.5 billion to nearly $4 billion, the companies said. Robert W. Kinzie, chairman of the Motorola unit Iridium, said it hopes to launch a 66-satellite network by 1998.