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To: Serendipity who wrote (7825)	10/13/1999 7:10:00 AM
From: Jeff Vayda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Pooky: Sure as GSM and the other cell formats (TDMA and CDMA) grow and fill in holes and expand their coverage the advantage of Globalstar lessens. The point is there is so much area that will not be added to the networks coverage areas. It is just not economic in cost or time. Satellites are the only way to reach those areas and they do it today with zero marginal costs. Globalstar can not compete against cellular in cellular's market, and cellular can not compete against Globalstar in Globalstar's market. Jeff Vayda

To: Serendipity who wrote (7825)	10/13/1999 7:30:00 AM
From: thomas_l	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

I must join in on this discussion. This is just plain wrong. As the footprint grows, more and more users buy and become GSM or CDMA customers and the market for Globalstar expands. People always forget that the real coverage by cellular systems is so very limited even in populated states or countries that gaps are just about everywhere. Think about all the uncovered roads, farmland, coastline, backcountry etc. People do not live in big cities only! The change happening now which people like you do not seem to understand is that Globalstar does not need to invent the customers (like previous satellite companies such Inmarsat had to do), the customers are the current cellular subscribers that already have accounts, prepaid or proven credit. They just need to learn what the new technology can do for them. That is a job that Vodafone/Airtouch and others will have not trouble in carrying out. I can just imagine the ads, showing the housewife standing outside the broken family wan making the G* phone call, and the regular cell phone smashed on the asphalt! Regards, Thomas L