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To: Jim Parkinson who wrote (7278)9/9/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: Jeff Vayda  Read Replies (3) of 29987
 
Jim: Items 1& 2 dont make any sense to me.

Unconfirmed reports from the conf but here is what I have heard this am:
1. G* waiting for Iridium to fold and wants to take over its bandwidth.
2. Considering placing 2 geo's at poles for complete global coverage.
3. 10,000 test calls per day are being conducted successfully. System works well so far.

The system can be rolled out without them, no need to wait.

Further, G* does not need additional bandwidth, they need to fill what they have first. Perhaps an Loral Alliance grab, but even that is far fetched. The US gov has bought some I* phones and just completed a test with F16s for real time, in-flight communications. I* is not going away. It may be a different animal in 6 months to a year, but it is not going away. Too long for G* to wait until I*'s bones are cold.

The poles birds have been talked about under a second generation configuration and as an aid to data transfer from the broad band constellations. Geos for G* would increase delay and not benefit voice traffic at all.

Like point number three, guess that would support at least 10K phones being available (if only on the resale market (ggg)

Thanks for the news.

Jeff Vayda
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