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To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (8000)	10/24/1999 2:06:00 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 29986

Weird that a Czech firm is better at marketing than U.S. firms ! Jon. eom.

To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (8000)	10/25/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: Drew Williams	Respond to of 29986

Geoff, After seeing your post yesterday about Inmarsat, I decided to do a little informal survey. I asked everyone in my company (64 people, ALL of whom have cellular phones!) and everyone else I spoke with on the phone during the day (about another 20 people) whether they had ever heard of Inmarsat and knew what their product was. Excluding yours truly, nobody knew the answer. (Two people said, "Oh yeah, I've heard of them," after I explained what Inmarsat did, but I think they were lying.) (It would also be unfair to compare these results to this particular group's awareness of GlobalStar, since everyone at my company has been hearing me talk about GlobalStar since I joined the company last year. I have photographs of successful GlobalStar launches hanging in my cubicle.) So, I do not take too seriously comparisons of Inmarsat's market penetration with what I think GlobalStar should be able to do. Inmarsat's marketing in the US has always been pretty much invisible except in some pretty narrow vertical markets. GlobalStar should have significantly broader appeal. It is my opinion, which has often been explained here in more depth than I will give tonight, that there is plenty of market for a quality, hand-held satellite telephone. Iridium's problem was not the size of the market, it was the quality of their marketing. Since I have no hands-on direct experience with Iridium, I cannot comment on their product. I do say that my personal experience with Qualcomm's telephone technology has been much better than my experience with Motorola's.