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To: gdichaz who wrote (7995)	10/24/1999 1:26:00 PM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29986

Chaz As for your, "PS And you certainly know of the progress made over time by Nokia in miniturization. Do you think Ericsson will fail to reduce phone size while increasing practical functionality over time for the GSM/Satellite phone" I was just reading a book published by Communications We(e)(a)k (delete according to your views) International for Ericsson regarding mobile telphony. It is The Mobile Phone book by Meurling and Jeans, although published back in 1994 it still makes for quite a good read from technical to marketing issues. In it it states an Ericsson person seeing that the various reginal standards would continue (this was 94 I remind you!) and that satellite would provide the meld for true international roaming. Examples illustrated was a Yank coming to Eruoland, nad a Eurohead going to Yankland. In each case their 'home' phone would switch to satellite when there is no coverage. Now that is all well and after some thought in the last hour or so, I owuld say yes it will happen on condition. In my view the condition is a satellite attachment. I believe it is similar to the Kyocera concept (I think it was there's), where a normal mobile phone is attached to a "surround-the-phone" satellite transceiver (hard to describe it unless you have used an Iridium version of it). The handset already has most of the functions needed apart from the transceiver. In this case I could use my minature phone (although my current ones aren't!!) around Europe, but should i travel to Timbucto or New York I would add the satellite component. It is more like clipping into a sleeve. This addition of components falls right into my philosophy of adding "fit for purpose" attachments. With Bluetoth this will become even more evident (and also why I hate the pdQ monster so much...technically fine, the right idea if you think the market share of palm Pilots, but the execution horrible). The attaching the satellite component would, or in my view SHOULD, extend the appeal to the broader market..it is there as an option as and when or if you need it. Now that would make things interesting and would bolster the market presence of any satellite service provider. All the best, Mika PS I visit/post on other threads as the mood and work takes me. However all forms of mobile telephony is of interest. I wrote a few pages on satellite stuff a month or so back. This month I will be writing on Vod and Orngy comparing the two and the recent investments/mergers/takeovers of both. Our common ground is mobile telephony...but from there we differ ;-) PPS Sorry for the obvious typos -although I never correct British to Americanisms;_) It is now 18:25 on Sunday and being a sad git, I am still at work!