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To: Keith Feral who wrote (4700)	11/17/2000 12:35:53 PM
From: Pierre	Read Replies (1) of 197020

How do these WLL networks connect to the rest of the country/world? I can understand why it would not be cost effective to build a full featured cell tower network for a 500 person village. Still, that village must somehow be connected to the outside world. Is it contemplated that hard wire will run from the village to some urban area? If so, then the cost savings are in running local hard wire vs wireless, but the cost of getting there remains the same. The stealth question here is couldn't Globalstar, at least at early stages of deployment to truly remote villages, provide the connection to the outside? A WLL handling local village calls and the network, not individual hand sets, directing calls to G* to get to the outside. Cheap standard cell handsets, cheap local minutes - premium cost per minute only if call made to location not served by the WLL network. FWIW, Hyundai is the G* contractor for India, but as far as I know hasn't yet been licensed to provide service there, or hasn't managed to set up a local SP. Either way, no G* currently available in India. Pierre

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