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To: limtex who wrote (6911)	8/27/1999 7:15:00 AM
From: thomas_l	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Sorry cutting in on your conversation about the gateway coverage. As an old Inmarsat rep. I do have great interest in these kinds of things even though G* shares do not count high in my portfolio. I have two things to add: 1. From G* we know that line of sight is limited to a minimum 10 deg. elevation, both GW and handsets. How big is the GW service area if the limit is set to 9 deg? 2. If Iridium can do sat-sat switching and thus have almost unlimited coverage, why can the G* gateways not switch in the same way so they can hand over calls to another gateway as the sats move out of sight. That would indeed increase the coverage, or should I say merge the coverage of many gateways into one big area. Iridium has a very limited bandwidth on the inter-satellite links, but capacity on ground is almost unlimited these days. I think this is going to be somthing big as soon as improvements like inter-gateway links and IP protocol (WAP) will be put in use, (if it happens!). Thomas