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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8240)	11/8/1999 3:03:00 PM
From: Jeff Vayda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

M: I agree with all your points. I admire your strength of conviction to consistently restate the case. I tire of the effort rather quickly. I have a hard time going over the obvious (to me at least) time and time again. I know there are new posters all the time, but still feels like a rehash. Keep up the good work. Jeff Vayda WRT: Handsets will be beeping from Vladivostok to Valparaiso [bet you don't know where that is]. Well, I know of three in the US alone. I used to live near one in the Fla panhandle, nice area. Unfortunately as the web world revolves around the United States, the information set for other areas is a little lacking. I can get a nice satellite picture of 'my' Val-P terraserver.microsoft.com Can you get one of yours? Jeff Vayda

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8240)	11/8/1999 3:19:00 PM
From: Rocket Scientist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

"Message from the Chairman" [Excerpt from B.Schwartz letter in October 99 Globalstar Communications Magazine] "I have been asked over and over again, "What assurance do you have taht you can sucessfully launch a new satellite-based international telephone service when others have seemingly failed?" I tell them that my confidence stems from Globalstar's world-class partners and service providers who have an established presence in 125 countries, established reliationships with regulatory authorities around the world, a combined subscriber base of 100 million customers and in-place distribution channels. More than any other source, our service provider forecasts validate Globalstar's market-one that far exceeds the capacity of current and potential service providers." As I've opined before, relying on existing SP/Distributors, provides the compelling benefit of their in country relationships with regulators, distributors and customers at the expense that G* is dependent on them to get moving. That means, SP by SP, distributor by distributor, region by region, operating managers and marketing people have to be convinced G* service really meets its specs, sales and customer care people have to be trained, product staged for resale, billing systems updated, etc., etc. BLS could have followed the Ed Stiano/Motorola/Iridium model and bypassed all these extra steps, but that didn't work very well, either.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8240)	11/8/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 29987

Maurice, <Handsets will be beeping from Vladivostok to Valparaiso [bet you don't know where that is].> I know one sleepy Indiana town a hour and half south of Chicago. Are you from Valparaiso or somewhere around? Chuck P.S.: I never though something like this would be my first post on this thread! Watching the big G*.....and waiting...