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To: akmike who wrote (15890)	8/17/2000 5:13:26 PM
From: Souze	Read Replies (2) of 29987

I agree that the G* market of pilots and outfitters may be large, but for phones, not for minutes. The battery in the Qualcomm 1600 has a talk-time of 3 1/2 hours or a standby time of 9 hours. An outfitter or a pilot is going to want to preserve that time for emergencies and not waste it in conversation. Extra batteries help alleviate the problem, but they don't make it go away. IMO, the profitable market for G* is not those who own it for security (and I'm one of them), no matter how large that market is. The profitable market is the one that comes with a power source for the phone and a place to affix an antenna- like a personal vehicle, a delivery van, a cruise ship or a commercial aircraft. A prior poster implied that Vorizon had made an inferior choice by installing a temporary cellular network for Montana's firefighters, where they could have provided G* phones. I disagree. The G* phone wouldn't cut it. Maximum battery life of 9 hours when the phone is turned on in G* mode, and that time is decreased by about 2.5 x talk-time; and the antenna would have to point to the sky for communication. Pretty high chance a firefighter would not receive an urgent message like 'fire has turned, heading back in your direction', because the battery died or most likely the firefighter was busy fighting the fire and wasn't concentrating on pointing the antenna to the sky. G* needs to get some traction in those power-source markets. I don't think that price remains a great issue. But I don't know what the obstacles are.

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