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

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To: John Perkins who wrote (32)	9/30/1996 11:53:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	of 381

Hi John, You must have been doing a bit of reading!!! I went and had a look - that seems ages ago. I'm not sure which cheek your tongue is in, so the straight answer is that the expert that told me is the guy who was in charge of design of some aspects of the system. So not a bad source. I had been suggesting that NZ could get cheap calls because there aren't many people out in the ocean so the satellites would never be at capacity. He pointed out that because they need all their power over the busy places, they won't be discounting elsewhere significantly. You see, the sun supplies zero power!! Yes, it does! When the satellite is in darkness, which is half the time. Then, it depends on batteries, which are recharged during daytime. Since you can't have enormous batteries and huge solar panels, there is an optimum power availability. Hence no cheap calls for me :-[ Maybe you read this already, but never mind, won't hurt to restate. Bye, Maurice..

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