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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT
GSAT 66.72+7.0%3:59 PM EST
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16624)9/8/2000 7:25:33 PM
From: John Walliker  Read Replies (1) of 29987
 
Maurice,

But the nearest cellphone tower would tell the handset to just whisper, so there wouldn't be too many base stations affected [though even a whisper can carry a long way on a clear night with no trees and buildings in the way].

Not necessarily. The base station antennas are very directional vertically, so the nearby ones would not see a very strong signal and the phone might well transmit at full power. In cities there may be hundreds of base stations per square mile, with great reuse of channels. A hundred people all calling from an aircraft might well cause mayhem to the network operators.

Of course, this would not be a problem for G*.

John
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