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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5115)	6/7/1999 8:49:00 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Maurice, Enjoy your afternoon! Ry

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5115)	6/8/1999 4:56:00 AM
From: limtex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

MW - My GSM drops calls all the time even where coverage is supposed to be good. Basically GSM sucks but everyone uses it and puts up with the dropped calls and I guess no-one ever bothers to try and get refunds from the service providers.. I never have because you just can't be bothered and so I guess that the service providers get a lot more revnue as a result but who cares. So im my view it will be a fortiori in the case of GSTRF. As for trying to do DD on the market that is total waste of time and money. Its just common sense that GSTRF is going to get over a million customers within a year or so. I questioned the customer numbers a year ago on this thread and you only have to look back to see some of the analysis. The customer number issue is NOT an issue. What is an issue is the launch schedule. Thats the only issue. Which remoinds me when's the next one? Best regards, L

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5115)	6/9/1999 7:48:00 PM
From: duncan moyer	Respond to of 29987

Raymond's example of 99.999% for a wired switch with < 10 sec/yr outage is not a valid comparison to G* nor to any wireless telephone system. I don't own a cell phone, but with all the dropped calls that I read about on this and other threads I believe that the cellular network reliability is no better than maybe 99.9%. While this number is improving with time one does not have to look too far back when reliability was even less. There appears to be no problem with acceptance by users knowing the limitations of the network. Those that have a need for G* service will be the early users, even if the network is less than ideal. As the system is built-out and reliability improves many others will come on board.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5115)	6/14/1999 10:56:00 AM
From: Rajala	Respond to of 29987

>Many people would rather have some service than no service, >even if the lack of satellites ill result in lack of service >for a few minutes until a satellite appears and dropped calls when >a satellite disappears over the horizon while the call is in >progress. Well well well. If this was the only problem of the satellite phones, which it is not, and G* only satellite phone provider, which it is not, still this initial quality problem would be pretty bad. Why? Consider the I*. When they got their dreary stuff launched, who were the professionals who featured prominently among their first customers? The real trend setters of the world, the journalists. And it does not pay to explain to our typical hack in his mid-afternoon drunken stupor that he may not have read his user manual carefully enough to operate a mobile phone. Or that the phone does not work on this side of the hill and its necessary to go to the other side where the Serb snipers are and it is actually quite possible to get one's bollocks blown off. - rajala