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To: Boplicity who wrote (5838)	7/19/1999 9:48:00 AM
From: Mazman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Greg, The increase in traffic would be on the satellite link when the ground cell is maxed out. Perhaps the two companies would strike a deal, with GSTRF saying it would always use a particular ground-based system when its members are within range of a cell tower, and that the ground-based company's subscribers would be bounced up to GSTRF satellites when the nearest tower is overloaded. From a customer standpoint, would need to give them the choice of choosing this extra back-up option or not, since such a rollover plan might be fairly pricey protection against dropped calls. The companies would share a certain percentage of the revenues from calls carried on each other's networks, based upon some reasonable formula. Just speculating, Mazman company could negotiate a percentage of each other's reven say, the satein which each gets of percentage of the other's business