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To: ccryder who wrote (8305)	11/12/1999 10:00:00 AM
From: Jeff Vayda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

OT: Two white knights for ICO, more confirmation of the market. The street is starting to listen again. also Latest Satellite Book out :http://www.unterberg.com/research/index.htm (Thanks Phillips Telecon) Jeff Vayda DUELING SAVIORS: A communications bigwig is offering to match Craig McCaw's plan to invest $1.2 billion in troubled ICO Global Communications [ICOFQ]. The existence of another bailout offer surfaced this week after satellite-telephone company ICO won approval from bankruptcy courts in Delaware, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda to obtain short-term financing of $150 million from investors led by telecommunications pioneer McCaw. The new long-term bailout offer was received from Subhash Chandra, the owner of Zee Telefilms, India's largest TV network. He offered to match the $1.2 billion bailout package that McCaw agreed to provide ICO last month. Although Chandra's offer is still alive, the courts opted to approve the partial financing from McCaw's group to help ICO pay its short-term obligations.

To: ccryder who wrote (8305)	11/12/1999 2:12:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

<Regarding using G/GEO Sats for wireless data, broadband downlink from GEO will require more antenna gain (read bigger) than practical for a hand held device. Alternatively, an order of magnitude increase in GEOSAT power would be required. But there is a paradigm change on the bandwidth required for WWW access--e.g. Palm Pilot V.> As $ill Gates says, Paradigm Shift Happens [TM] so maybe the bandwidth required will* change. Thanks for the explanation. Which makes me think of an umbrella, which Globalstar subscribers stick upside down in the ground using the spike and it tracks the satellite and gives them great antenna gain and multi megabits per second download from one of those Loral satellites under instruction from the Globalstar satellite [which was told to do that by the normal Globalstar phone]. The OmniTRACS units can do that on trucks swooping and turning along highways and even hitting the odd pot hole. They can do it on boats, bobbing around in the ocean. So it shouldn't be too hard to do it with a little [300mm diameter] umbrella stuck in the ground. An easy Bluetooth connection to the WWeb device and hey presto, instant bandwidth in the desert. If people are zooming around in their monster Winnebagos, keeping the road kill up and the endangered species down an umbrella in their vehicle shouldn't be too much of a burden to carry. Even a backpacker could carry a little furled antennae with little difficulty. Aluminium-coated kevlar or something should do it. Kevlar is strong, so the signals wouldn't smash through it [just kidding]. It could double as a real umbrella in rain [when the Loralien signals would probably fade making the WWeb useless anyway]. How about that? Maurice

To: ccryder who wrote (8305)	11/12/1999 2:51:00 PM
From: John Stichnoth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

cc, You seem to have a feel for how big an antenna must be to receive a geo signal. Can you advise? And, is there a specific form factor that might work best (eg Maurice's, or ET's, umbrella)? I believe the structure being bandied about is for signals to travel: laptop or pda to G* sat to G* groundstation to Cyberstar groundstation to Cyberstar sat to laptop or pda. (Yes, I know--reduced data set. But, I want to download a movie to my laptop to entertain me on my next business trip!) Best, JS