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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: brian h who wrote (7406)	9/16/1999 4:07:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 29987

I'm giving up on China for now. It's just too hard. Visas, scheduling has to be done in advance. I bet currency hassles. Authoritarian place [I never find I like those places though the people are perversely often nicer than those in the free world which I think is because it's like mutual protection - downtown USA is outright snakey and houses are fortified with bars and stuff]. Language problems. I doubt that I'll even find a Globalstar retail point and will probably have to pay $10000 as a foreigner to sign up for a while and won't be permitted to go within 50km of the gateway because of security precautions. Watching Jiang Zemin here made me think China is not likely to be an easy place to drop in and have a bit of a look around. I sort of know that anyway. I'm not much into planning trips 6 months in advance like some kind of royal tour, so they miss out on a lot of foreign exchange. No wonder the place is poor. They'd perhaps arrest me anyway, for being a possible Tibetan supporter or having made friendly comments about Taiwan. Which is all very odd because I grew up with Chinese all around, my mother born in China and members of China Society, and so on. Since they can get me feeling dodgy about the place, it's not surprising the rabid kind of American gets all red in the face when they read about soldering techniques being sold. Maybe it's all cuddly and nice. I'll have to find out another time. Maybe Globalstar won't be operating in China by November. You say you can't find Chinese Globalstar distributors and you know the language and geography. Fat chance that I'd succeed. Better just buy a GSM phone and forget about Globalstar and China. Another customer down the drain! Hey, maybe some hot shot China Telecom salesman will email me! Or even a Globalstar rep. Or somebody. Mqurice@eudoramail.com Where do I buy a Globalstar phone? Where can I use it? Is there a map of the world with coverage shown? url? How much will it cost me? How much will the minutes cost in the different countries? Still going to Geneva. China is negotiating on CDMA. I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen this year. Not much use for them or USA to mess around on it. Just bad negotiators causing the delays [I suspect on the USA side with people like Lott and with bombing the embassy]. Maurice