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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Veiko Herne who wrote (5123)	6/8/1999 12:52:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Capacity Yes, Veiko, they calculated breakeven on 10 - 12 billion minutes per year for Globalstar maximum capacity and about 1.3bn minute for Iridium. The lumpy demand means that much of the satellite circuitry and power supply will remain unused no matter what they do. Even with "Current Price is ..." displays on the handsets giving minutes away for no charge when the system is underused won't raise demand enough to fill the system [for example on trajectories over the Pacific when the orbit is facing the sun and there is spare power and circuitry]. I can't recall the available minutes 'if the system was totally used and the photovoltaics were always in sun' but it is about double the 10bn minute estimate of capacity. Something like that. Maurice