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To: Rajala who wrote (5847)	7/21/1999 12:36:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 29987

Good grief Rajala, we are in danger of being in harmony. Globalstar won't be the solution to overloaded terrestrial networks, not only for the reasons you gave but also because the terrestrial providers will figure out that if they sell about 30% of their minutes to people who like good deals and are able to defer most of their phone calls to a less busy and therefore less expensive time, they will have many more happy customers who can ALWAYS connect = NO busy signals, they will make a LOT more money in the busy times and they will have a much more fully loaded system instead of one with big peaks and troughs in demand. Craig Farrill of Airtouch said that they will be going to throughput pricing and peak load pricing [when he was discussing 3G on the CDG conference]. To depend on competitor stupidity to provide a market isn't a good idea. We should forget about people using Globalstar handsets to provide connection when the terrestrial networks are overloaded. It will happen for a while until the terrestrial providers figure it out and put in the software to handle pricing, but it won't last long and it won't provide much income to Globalstar. We agree on this one, but for different reasons. Meanwhile, from floridatoday.com July 24: Boeing Delta 2 (7420) on flight 273 with fifth Globalstar mission (4 sats) from pad 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla., during launch windows of either 4:00:37 to 4:03:37 a.m. EDT (0800:37-0803:37 GMT) or 6:58:07 to 7:01:07 a.m. EDT (1058:07-1101:07 GMT). Maurice