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

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (7447)	9/18/1999 8:27:00 AM
From: gdichaz	Respond to of 29987

Tero:Why can't standby time be brushed under the carpet. Plenty of other stuff there! :-) Chaz

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (7447)	9/19/1999 7:10:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 29987

Tero, Ericy and Telital haven't published details about their Globalstar handsets because they haven't invented them yet and maybe what they did invent needs a bit of reinventing. They aren't planning on having them ready until sometime in 2000 if I remember rightly. They'd hoped for end of year, but as you say, it's getting a bit late for that. That's my theory anyway. Meanwhile, I'm off to Geneva to check out this ITU thingy: itu.int Qualcomm, Globalstar and every man and his dog have got a stand there. Globalstar will do a soft launch, which will be interesting. I'd hoped to buy a handset and use it round the world, but since there isn't any roaming until half way through next year and there are few gateways anyway, it doesn't seem likely. To ensure no dissatisfied customers, they are not going to let customers get the handsets. Which is an interesting sales strategy. I never thought to make that suggestion to my marketing bosses when I was at the sharp end. "Hey, Boss! I've got a new strategy. To avoid dissatisfied customers, I'm going to not sell any more oil. How about a raise?" I suppose there will be fleets of rabid Finns swarming around the Exhibition Halls wearing little reindeer antler hats, clutching Nokia phones, sending SMS flat out and downloading WWeb pages. mtnsms.com Let's hope Globalstar is up on the SMS stuff. There will be tallish Kiwi, wearing a possum skin hat, with a tall 18 yr old daughter, speaking in a weird New Zealand dialect. They'll mostly be hanging around the Globalstar and Qualcomm sites, hassling the poor Globalstar representatives who will wish that there was an operational G* system and that those reps could be selling 10,000 handsets to passersby. Meanwhile Tero, I'm amazed at your silence on the Qualcomm handset division surrender. Infrastructure gone. Now handsets on the way. This is not victory, even if the share price did zoom. I'm glad the idea that many in SI had, that Qualcomm could give the handset division cheap ASICs with no royalties didn't get much airtime. If the handset division couldn't compete paying the full price, there is no reason to continue. Better to sell it to China, which wants technology transfer, which would get CDMA rolling there and open a LOT bigger customer base than the Q! handset people could create on their own. Okay, over and out. If anyone wonders where I am, I've gone for a couple of months. Build, build, build. Launch, launch, launch. It should be all fait accompli on my return. It will be weird to be deaf, dumb and blind for weeks at time. WWeb is going to be big! Those who doubt that are obviously not serious Web users and don't know what's happening. Globalstar better make sure they get pretty high data rates in their next constellation or have a smooth way of switching to Skybridge or something for WWeb data rather than voice. Over and out! Mqurice PS: Bye Carol! :-] Get those customer web sites rolling - the customers are champing at the bit.