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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4314)	6/24/1999 12:07:00 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Frank, Only one problem with covering the third world, (and just where did the second world disappear to, anyway?), as far as I can see, if the average annual income of people in the third world is $2,500 (a SWAG on my part) and the cost of wireless satellite telecoms is $2,500/PA, just how are these people gonna eat? I suppose just like in the past, on what they can grow, bein' farmers and all and not having a heck of a lot of use for world wide connectivity. Perhaps Bill and Craig are experiencing the same thing I am out here in the sticks in Tumalo, we can see the future of wireless telecosmic connectivity, we just can't see how to make it pay.... Mi Dos Centavos, Ry

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4314)	6/24/1999 2:28:00 AM
From: Darren DeNunzio	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

Regarding Teledesic... IMO, Teledesic is distancing itself from Motorola after the Iridium fiasco. Motorola has a lot of explaining to do, and Bill and Craig are waiting to hear their[MOT] answers. Some Teledesic Facts. Teledesic is not a public company. Teledesic is scheduled to begin service in 2003. The Teledesic system is designed to support millions of simultaneous users. Users will have two-way connections that provide 64 Mbps on the downlink and 2 Mbps on the uplink. Teledesic will operate in the high-frequency Ka-band of the radio spectrum (28.6 - 29.1 GHz uplink and 18.8 - 19.3 GHz downlink)utilizing 288 satellites. Teledesic QOS design parameters include: Multi-megabit, Bandwidth-on-Demand (BoD). Terminals will be able to request and release capacity in less than 50 msec, resulting in extremely efficient statistical multiplexing. Fiber-like Bit Error Rates (BER). Use of Forward Error Control (FEC) will provide BER of less than 10-10, creating an essentially noise-free channel. Fiber-like availability. Availability of 99.9% or higher, enabled by Teledesic's 40 degree elevation angle among other features, will provide higher uptime than many terrestrial links. Fiber-like latency. End-to-end (one-way) latency will be as low as 20 msec and less than 75 msec on all links of less than 5,000 km. Round-trip (two-way) latency will be less than 100 msec on most connections.