Maurice, lack of a "minutes sold" clock on G*'s web page is a disappointment, but, imo, there are many far worse features about G*'s web presence, or lack thereof. Below is a short list. In case (as has been rumored) someone from Lor/G* mgmt/IR/PR really reads these posts, maybe we'll see some improvements.
1. GLP home page is available only in English. This is absurd for a company daring to call itself "Global" Star! They should have as a bare minimum every language of the initial territories served on their page: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Russian (I hope!)
2. It should have links to every GW's home page and those GW home pages should be up to date and have useful info on them. Most of the GW SP's web pages look like they haven't been updated in months (or years, in some cases.) Among the worst ones are entities directly invested in by G*: Canada, Mexico, Russia, Brazil. Only the G*USA and Elsacom web pages have been recently updated, and they still have a lot of problems, for example Elsacom lists no local distributors/SPs even in countries supposed to start service this month. Tesam doesn't have one for Europe/N. Africa, S. Africa doesn't have a G* page, the C. American web page is pathetic....
3. The G*USA web page needs work, too. How come of it's distributors, several seem not to be in business, yet? Only O'Gara and GMPCS have info about G*. Even Air Touch's own retail arm, listed as a distributor, doesn't mention G*!!! And the coverage map shown on G*USA page is misleading and confusing. It implies coverage in places like Cuba and Libya, which is highly unlikely, doesn't show where you can roam on terrestrial networks, doesn't show a GW in Iceland...
4. Speaking of coverage, why does G*LP site say 41 countries will start service in 1999, but doesn't say when, concretely, any given country will start. I'd like to see an exact timeline for start of service in each of the 100 odd countries G* supposedly has plans for.
Practically every cellular provider in the world has a web page these days; I've visited many of them, in places I didn't even know were places, hoping to find some mention of coming G* service; almost all of them are better executed than G*'s, I'm sorry to say. |
