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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7127)	9/1/1999 10:10:00 PM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Maurice: No roaming until 2000. Maybe a better bet is to sign up your GSM part in NZ and then sign up with ICORoam, the only part of ICO that works!

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7127)	9/1/1999 11:59:00 PM
From: John McPherson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Maurice, et. al. Does anyone know for if G* reads this thread? Thanks! John

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7127)	9/2/1999 12:24:00 AM
From: Serendipity	Respond to of 29987

Fabulous post Maurice. Everything you are saying is accurate. This site is meant to feed some lame corporate initiative saying there ought to be a web site. It is definitely not customer focused. This whole Geneva thing scares me. There is no publicity. No feedback on what the launch means. No discussion of who the Asian partners are (important since village phones are key according to Bernie). There is no nothing. And even lesser of a product.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7127)	9/2/1999 1:02:00 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Maurice - I had a similar unpleasant experience with the Globalstar website globalstar.com when I was (merely) trying to request a copy of GSTRF's most recent annual report ! There was no way to do it at all (at that time (a few months ago)). I did find one of those "e-mail us" things, sent an e-mail, and after a little back and forth correspondence (which, of course, wasted some G* employee's time), got the annual report. (The annual report (also) was not too "user friendly" either). The thought has crossed my mind that this is all part of a master plan to keep everyone in the dark while Loral slowly increases its ownership position in G* before G* stock goes to $200 a share. Jon.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7127)	9/2/1999 8:54:00 AM
From: Sawtooth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

<<Well, I've been clicking around as a customer trying to buy a Globalstar phone to use in Europe, China, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Honolulu and USA but no luck........This is super customer unfriendly. I think Globalstar is only intending to sell these phones and minutes to corporate partners. I followed the trail from globalstar.com into 'service regions' and got a bunch of corporate junk from China Telecom, Taiwan's company and Vodafone Australia giving information on what Globalstar is, fill in this form and stuff like that, but nothing where a hot buyer can find out the real deal available in 4 weeks.......I think there are thousands of potential customers clicking around the Web, wondering whether Globalstar or Iridium or maybe ICO is the best bet and unable to find much of anything. They sure can't order a phone and pay for it yet. Not that I can see.....>> The We'll let the SP's handle all the marketing at the customer end is a major flaw in the strategy, IMO. There appears to be no synchronized, centrally directed approach to marketing or distribution. SP's can handle the end-user marketing but it is imperative that there be a common look and feel to the G* campaign. To do otherwise invites confusion and ineffectiveness; not to mention an unsuccessful project. I'd love to hear an argument against a solid, cohesive marketing strategy. ...Tim