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To: limtex who wrote (6840)	8/26/1999 1:42:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 29987

Limtex, <The logistics must be simply awesome especially right across the board. My guess is to be prepared for some delays but they'll get it right...>one should never blithely hope that somebody will eventually get something right. As long as enough money or power keeps flowing, they can do things wrong until it is game over. Check out Iridium as one of many examples. Globalstar/VodafoneAirtouch and buddies might just keep doing it wrong. You know, the logistics aren't really that awesome. Make a few satellites which are just bits of metal soldered together [sometimes with the wiring back to front] with some solar panels and batteries. Load them up. Untie rope from handrail - light fuse, stand clear. Get a few big umbrella-looking antennae, bolt them to concrete in the ground and point them at the radio signals shining from the sky [sort of like peering at the moon through binoculars]. Then buy a bunch of phones from Qualcomm. Sell them! Okay, it's tricky doing up the bolts on the umbrella things because you have to turn the nuts the right way. But selling the handsets and minutes is easy. It's called an auction. They even do them on The Web [It] these days. The highest bidder gets the handset and the minutes. Maurice