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To: djane who wrote (6006)	7/24/1999 3:16:00 PM
From: George yezbak	Respond to of 29987

my prediction is as follows: 7/30/99 33 9/30/99 45 1/1/00 60

To: djane who wrote (6006)	7/24/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: norman housley	Respond to of 29987

My bet is 32.50/45/72 on the respective dates

To: djane who wrote (6006)	7/24/1999 8:54:00 PM
From: brian h	Respond to of 29987

djane, My 33, 36, 60. Brian H.

To: djane who wrote (6006)	7/24/1999 9:00:00 PM
From: Oliver Schonrock	Respond to of 29987

djane While I think it is obviously ridiculous to pick stock prices at certain points in time, I'll part-take for the fun. My pick: 33/45/40 Reason for forty: The bumbling marketing effort will become clear and service launch hype will be over. I hope to be proved wrong here, but I feel this is most likely. So by Nov I have to decide whether to get out! Oliver

To: djane who wrote (6006)	7/25/1999 1:42:00 AM
From: Rocket Scientist	Respond to of 29987

djane, From a friend on the Yahoo thread who wants to joint your contest: RcktScntst3 by: Tastychap (55/M/Mississippi) 17300 of 17313 How come we have not been invited into the new G* price lottery on the SI board? Can you enter me? My prices for G* are 7/30= 37...9/30= 47...1/30= 57 By the way invite everyone over on the SI LOR & G* boards, to our LOR at $100 a share Bucket of Blood party. Power to the Loral & G* people! Power to the people. Right On! T.C.

To: djane who wrote (6006)	7/25/1999 2:14:00 AM
From: Nancy Haft	Respond to of 29987

Here's my contest closing prices for GSTRF: 34 / 38 / 77

To: djane who wrote (6006)	7/25/1999 9:55:00 AM
From: djane	Read Replies (12) \| Respond to of 29987

Contest I've decided to extend the contest entry date until 9:30 a.m. EST on Monday. And, I will invite the G* yahoo thread members to participate (an unintentional, obvious oversight). Talk : Communications : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSTRF \| Previous \| Next \| Respond \| To: djane (5984 ) From: djane Saturday, Jul 24 1999 12:17PM ET Reply # of 6040 Contest -- get your entries in before the Sunday a.m. launch. Winner receives dinner/drinks in NYC at the 5/00 G* shareholder meeting Talk : Communications : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSTRF \| Previous \| Next \| Respond \| To: brian h (5979 ) From: djane Friday, Jul 23 1999 12:55PM ET Reply # of 6004 To the thread, assuming a successful launch on Sunday to get to the 32 satellites needed to start Sept service, any predictions on G* closing share prices on Friday 7/30, 9/30/99 and 1/31/00? Based on past trends, I'll predict that G* share price declines on Monday (buy the rumor, sell the news...). Anyway, my predictions (31, 60, 75 and the 1st split of many). Yeah, use my bullishness and critical exuberance as a contrary indicator for sentiment purposes :-) As Rocket Scientist has done, I'll gather and post a summary of the responses provided before the Sunday morning (or later) launch. djane

To: djane who wrote (6006)	7/25/1999 10:58:00 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Okay -- my guesses for "contest" : 7/30/99 -- $35 9/30/99 -- $45 1/31/00 -- $75 (1/31/00 stock quote predicated on assumption that world stock markets have opened at all after 1/1/00 "world coming to an end" situation has come and gone). Jon.

To: djane who wrote (6006)	7/26/1999 1:57:00 AM
From: djane	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29987

WSJ. Iridium Is Slashing Its Ad Budget As Phones Encounter Problems July 26, 1999 Advertising Iridium Is Slashing Its Ad Budget As Phones Encounter Problems By KATHRYN KRANHOLD Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Iridium to planet Earth: "Our advertising budget has dried up." Showing that even the splashiest ad campaign can't make a world-beater out of a problematic product, Washington, D.C.-based Iridium LLC is slashing its advertising budget to around $12 million for 1999, according to industry people. Quite a comedown for an upstart satellite-phone company that just a year ago launched a splashy, $145 million campaign around the globe with the grand words, "Calling Planet Earth." Iridium officials praised the advertising campaign. Iridium also insisted the $12 million is too low, but declined to offer a different figure and said the budget "isn't locked in." Additionally, Interpublic Group's Ammirati Puris Lintas won't any longer be the agency of record. People familiar with the account say Iridium is trying to figure out how to continue branding the product, but to a more narrow audience. "We are refocusing our marketing strategy," an Iridium spokeswoman said, with an eye to targeting users such as those in the military, government and oil and natural-gas businesses. As for whether to keep running television and radio ads, she said, "we're going to assess that." With a $4 billion investment from a group of telecommunications companies including Motorola, Iridium began offering its wireless global cellular phone in October 1998, a month behind schedule because of technical problems. The brick-sized telephones, priced at about $2,300, allow customers to make calls from the most remote places on Earth. But customer complaints about bad connections have dogged Iridium. In June, the company let go about 15% of its staff, including many executives involved in the marketing of the service. Iridium wanted to have 500,000 users by the end of 1999, but has about 15,000 users. In recent weeks, the company's biggest backer and general contractor, Motorola, warned that the Iridium project might be forced to close down unless a restructuring agreement could be reached for both investors and creditors. But Iridium has vowed to stay alive. Iridium went all-out when it launched the Ammirati ad campaign back in June 1998. The campaign, directed mostly at business travelers, was considered one of the biggest global blitzes to date for a consumer product, with spots on television and radio and in print in some 45 countries. In one ad, showing a trail of footprints leading into the desert, the copy read: "It will impress people. Assuming there's anyone around to impress." Another ad showed a shot of a fog-shrouded mountain, with the caption: "No place on earth can bring relaxation unless you know there's peace at the office." Direct mail was translated into 13 languages, and TV ads ran on 17 different airlines. There was also a sophisticated Web page dedicated to the satellite phone. At airports, Iridium set up booths in executive lounges so travelers could hand-test the telephones. Earlier this year, the Iridium campaign started winding down. People familiar with the account say the campaign now is set to all but disappear except for in a few trade publications. * * * LEGAL SNIT ENDS between former allies D'Arcy and Gateway. MacManus Group's D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles and its former client Gateway have settled D'Arcy's lawsuit against the personal-computer maker over its switch to another ad agency last year. Terms of the out-of-court settlement, reached earlier this month, weren't disclosed. Both sides characterized the settlement as amicable. D'Arcy had sued in June 1998 in federal court in Manhattan, seeking at least $9 million in damages and saying Gateway breached its contract with D'Arcy when it moved its estimated $90 million-a-year ad account to Interpublic Group's McCann-Erickson Advertising nine months before its deal with D'Arcy expired. The agency alleged that Gateway's then-new president Jeffrey Weitzen wanted to work with McCann, with whom he had worked when he was an executive at AT&T Corp. In court papers, Gateway has maintained that it never actually signed a final contract with D'Arcy and so it hadn't breached anything by moving its account. --Michael Rapoport Return to top of page \| Format for printing Copyright © 1999 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.