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To: brian h who wrote (2318)	9/22/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

It's true. Globalstar can offer roaming to people who visit areas not covered by terrestrial networks. And T28 can offer roaming to business people and tourists visiting heavily populated areas. Interestingly, both T28 and the Globalstar tri-mode CDMA-AMPS model were introduced simultaneously today. We can now observe the share price movements of GSTRF and ERICY and try to deduce which product the markets are having more faith in, now that people get a close look at both. Tero

To: brian h who wrote (2318)	9/22/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: Quincy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

I am confident "world phones" will be useful even though GSM providers like SBC/PacBell do not carry them. Since it is completely different in every way to AMPS (the predominant standard in the US), I would hate to be a GSM subscriber in North America without one. G* will provide you with a secure digital call in an AMPS-only region (which describes all but 280 markets in the US). A "world phone" cannot. G* eliminates problems that I have been suffering from when older American systems are unable and unwilling to roam calls reliably. (you would think they would find the roaming income lucrative enough to work on this...) I want to see what Globalstar's rates do to European providers hoping to cash in on visiting Americans.