Thanks LarryL, I agree I am amazing! Globalstar being a year behind plans of a few years ago, isn't all bad.
The Globalstar handsets will be much sleeker, smaller and more efficient thanks to the delays. The competition is in panic and some satellite systems have and will be cancelled due to lack of custom. People have given up the 'plenty of customers for everyone' Alice In Wonderland idea. [Anyone who has spent much time with customers knows there are NEVER just piles of customers lying around waiting for some kindly supplier to deign to let them buy an overpriced widget]. Sensible pricing and sales schemes will be used instead of a clunky 'one size fits all' overpriced model. Satellites will start their life more in synchronization with handset and gateway designs and production so satellite life will be better used. Stuff like that.
In 10 years time, the losses of now won't be of much concern to Globalstar shareholders though they are plenty ugly enough for now. Giving birth is always quite messy, noisy, problematic and risky. Learning to walk isn't easy either. But pretty soon, we'll know which is the swan and which the ugly duckling.
Sure, Iridium was beautiful, technologically amazing and all that great stuff, while Globalstar was just a boring bent pipe. But look what Globalstar is going to turn into. Amazing Q! designs with IBM's amazing SiGe high-powered chips [just announced] with heaps of multilevel satellites and pure, high quality CDMA sound. All this at a low price with worldwide coverage in a cute little handset. I suppose with WWeb functionality in Constellation4.
Anyone starting to think that Globalstar, Iridium, Odyssey, ICO, Teledesic aren't just peas in a pod? Number one, NOBODY else has CDMA by Qualcomm and nobody will!
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