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To: limtex who wrote (6914)	8/27/1999 8:05:00 AM
From: thomas_l	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

LT. Let me phrase this differently. G* does a soft handover between satellites within a GW footprint. In the case of G* the satellites move relative from west to east! Someone sitting at the east boundary of gateway coverage (or just outside of it) has to wait until the satellite sees both the gateway and the handset. The satellite moves over and finally looses sight to the gateway but has good visibility to the handset! From what I have learnt, this means no connection even though another gateway is in sight Once a call is initiated between a handset through these moving satellites to a specific gateway the coverage is limited to 3 points, handset, satellite, GW. If the call could be handed over to another gateway sitting to the east of the handset the coverage area would increase to be not 1500 miles (radius) it would bee 3000 miles or X times number of GW. If the call is moved between GWs, the coverage must increase accordingly, exactly in the same way as Iridium does move calls between satellites, hard handoff, right? The 10-degree limit seems to be the elevation angle, just like in Inmarsat or DirectTV. Thomas