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To: Matthew Wecksell who wrote (5715)	7/14/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: Jeff Vayda	Respond to of 29987

Matthew: Other than being a slap in the face of Indian sovereignty, (G* has worked hard to get individual OKs from each of the countries.) Politics and all you know. I really love your idea about the Pakistanis buying a gateway just to piss off the Indians, perhaps they could set up a front company to sell the phones as well, that way G* has plausible deniability! Jeff Vayda

To: Matthew Wecksell who wrote (5715)	7/14/1999 9:02:00 PM
From: Bharat H. Barai	Respond to of 29987

Globalstar should be able to work out the situation in India. India understands and has benefited more than any country from the satellite phones. In its recent military operations in Himalayan mountains, to flush out Pakistani trained, sponsored, financed terrorists,Indian Army used Iridium Satellite phones for communications among military commanders and troops at 16000-18000 feet. In fact Indian military spokesman gave credit to satellite phones for their successful opeartions against Pakistani terrorists. Indian Express, a major English language daily in India, (Website: www.expressindia.com)has started special fundraising drive to finance purchase of hundreds of satellite phones for the army, fighting the Pakistani sponsored Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. India understands the value of satellite phones.

To: Matthew Wecksell who wrote (5715)	7/15/1999 10:25:00 AM
From: Rajala	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

>G* has satellites above India, like it or not. (And they can >put a Gateway Station in any neighboring country - just tell >Pakistan that a station would piss off India and Pakistan >would problably pay for the gateway themselves.) This is very true what Matt suspects. And it would actually make perfect sense businesswise as well, since the telecommunications in India is being effectively suffocated by government policies. Mobile operators have no right on national roaming, signalling between states is banned and punitive taxes are put on users. All this have contributed to very expensive, very unprofitable and very patchy mobile telephony. So put the gateway to Pakistan. Indian subcontinent has some 1.3 bn people, even if the poor are taken out of the figure there should be couple of hudered million potential users (gee, do I start to believe myself that there actually is a market for satellite telephony?? Never thought it would come to this). Its besides the point but it really makes one wonder why the Indian government wants to block the development of their country in this way. Anything to slow down the economy. Knowing how vast the country is (its actually a subcontinent), and how bad the roads are, and how's the traffic, and how bad the fixed line communications, one would think the govt. would support this sort of infrastructure making the country more efficient. What are these guys thinking. - rajala