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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (4850)	7/28/1999 8:30:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

We haven't heard from Alexander Haig and Co.'s Skystation venture in awhile, so I did some searching and here's what I found. From: skystation.com WHile you're at it, you may as well check up on Angel Technologies HALO Project too. angeltechnologies.com broadband.com ================================================== SKY STATION COMPLETES CONCEPTUAL DESIGN REVIEW FOR STRATOSPHERIC PLATFORM WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 28, 1999 – Sky Station International, Inc. ("Sky Station"), an emerging provider of low-cost broadband Internet capacity via stratospheric platforms announced today the completion of the Platform Conceptual Design Review by Airship Technologies Services, Limited. Airship Technologies is the world's leading design and manufacturing company in the field of advanced technology airships, with a team who span 27 years of airship experience in international airship programs. "We are pleased to be a participant on the Sky Station global industrial team," said Sir John Walker, Chairman of Airship Technologies. "The Sky Station Platform represents a highly sophisticated and complex platform and we have a unique 100% record in carrying out our major technical airship development programs to successful conclusion." Alexander P. Haig, President of Sky Station, commented that "Airship Technologies has confirmed the conceptual design of the newest system intended for the delivery of a wide range of telecommunications services. Their experience in this technology enabled Airship Technologies to complete the study under budget and ahead of schedule. Sky Station will now proceed to the next stages of its development program to deploy its system by year 2002." Sky Station is developing a technology that represents one of the most significant innovations since the satellite. With Sky Station's unique Stratospheric Telecommunication Service, a system of lighter-than-air platforms will be maintained in geostationary positions over metropolitan areas using advanced proprietary technologies. Worldwide regulatory approval for the use of stratospheric platforms was granted by the International Telecommunications Union in November 1997 and by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission earlier that year. For further information please contact: Sky Station International, Inc. Telephone 1.202.518.0900 Fax 1.202.518.0802 email:webmaster@skystation.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (4850)	7/28/1999 9:01:00 PM
From: John Stichnoth	Respond to of 12823

Re: "DSL Problems"--I wonder how many of the complaint letters (sent to CNet, per the article) weren't DSL-related. Yesterday, for instance, my POTS connection to Bell Atlantic was down for most of the day, apparently because the server was down that is supposed to verify passwords. Every time I would try to log on, it didn't recognize my userid/password. That's going to happen on DSL as well at this QoS level. New implementations tend to be more suspected by the user, and incur more complaints. The typical reaction to the old technology (28.8 modems, eg.) is to accept it.