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Technology Stocks : CDMA, Globalstar versus Iridium, Inmarsat, etc.

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To: duncan moyer who wrote (210)8/16/1997 3:13:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn   of 381
 
Okay Duncan, Looking forwards to 4 Dec! Two months late. What a huge schedule of satellites going up according to that list. The sky really is going to get darker with them. Here is an url for the companies and a bit of information about them from the Iridium thread for readers to take a look at, copied here for convenience.
techstocks.com

From the Aug. 1, 97 issue of American Networks comes the following grid of
proposed satellite type providers:

System - Application - Type of Sys. - # of Sat's - Cost of Svc/min.

AMSC
Skycell - Mobile V/D - GEO - 2 - $1-$1.45

Comsat - Mobile V/D - GEO - 4 - $3

Spaceway- High-speed D- GEO - 8 - $1/10 MB

ICO Global
Commun. -Mobile V/D/fax - MEO - 12 - $1-$2

Odyssey -Fixed wireless,
telephony,cell - MEO - 12 - $0.65

Iridium -Mobile V/D - Big LEO - 66 - $3

Globalstr-Mobile V/D - Big LEO - 48 - $0.35

Skybridge-Highspd data - Big LEO - 64 - $40/month

Teledesc-Highspd data/vid-Big LEO - 288 - $0.04

Celestri-Highspd data/vid-Big LEO/GEO- 63 - N/A

Celestri-Highspd data/vid-Big LEO/GEO- 63 - N/A

GE Starsy-Highspd data -Little LEO - 72 - N/A

Orbcomm -Remote sensing -Little LEO - 24 - $0.25/message

VITA - Messaging -Little LEO - 2 - N/A

Mqurice
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