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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (15693)	8/14/2000 4:07:12 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 29987

RS: <Then, they should charge wholesale rates of about $0.50 for a 72K file download, (and the retail customer could expect to be soaked for $1.50). 72K is several pages of text in memory hog MSWord; it's about one page of fax'd information, and probably scores of short e-mails. > My anti-data comments are really because quite a few people seem to think that since voice isn't working, we can be saved by data. No we can't. Data will be great for Globalstar in certain applications where Globalstar acts as the link where the WWeb use sends a request via Globalstar and gets the cheap, high-speed download from Skybridge or elsewhere. That's my understanding anyway. Winnstar is the main inchoate application, which will use Globalstar voice with Geo data [or maybe ICO?]. Where I don't 'get it' is that Globalstar is a quite expensive way of moving bits compared with geostationary satellites. So I don't see why any data would go via Globalstar unless it was integrated with some device which is primarily a voice system. Okay, the SCADA devices might be pretty cool and they are going to use Globalstar. I suppose they need only a little bit of data so they are economic anyway. I suppose as with terrestrial systems, a channel could be allocated to data which would be efficient. But still not cheap. A $1.50 soaking for 72K is not tempting. A geo download for the same amount of data would be less than 1c. I know where I'll get my data since I won't mind waiting half a second for the download. As you say, for email it might not be acceptable. But people will want images via Windfast and those images will be expensive if they come via Globalstar! Guessing, Mqurice PS: I also assume, but have no idea, that Globalstar WWeb devices could download data from Geos using the stubby little aerials, the same as the other Geo and ICO system handsets have just a little aerial. The ACeS handset for example: acesinternational.com

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