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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT
GSAT 64.98-0.9%3:59 PM EST

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To: kech who wrote (23213)5/8/2001 12:14:10 AM
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One year later, Navajo teen still waits to log on
Efforts to bridge digital divide have stalled for girl who won computer in contest
siliconvalley.com

Navajo girl finally gets phone line

Hirshfield said Globalstar executives were taken by Myra's story when they first read it a year ago. They thought about ways they might help, but they didn't yet have the ideal technology. Their talks with Navajo tribal leaders moved slowly.

Then Hirshfield saw my column last month, which recounted Myra's last year: Winning the computer. Meeting the president. Appearing on a game show. And still having no phone.

``It spurred us to move more rapidly,'' Hirshfield said.

Not only that, by March the company had improved the technology needed to bring satellite phone and Internet service to Myra's trailer on the reservation.

siliconvalley.com
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