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by RF_Savage 1308 days ago
No interest in marketing them overseas.

There was also the not insignificant cost of completely re-engineering the RF frontend and radios. As back then (an partly still) Japan used cellular bands and technologies that ware completely different from other countries.

It kept the competition out, but also made it hard for them to compete abroad. And then iPhone happened and many of those manufacturers are no longer in the biz.