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To: Jeff Vayda who wrote (8571)	12/6/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: Stephen L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

QCOM's HDR and G* Although G* will initially be voice only (I believe they were playing with data over the call ititiation frequency) does anyone have any ideas on the Data potential. It would seem that if QCOM's HDR can support near cable broad band speeds in a terrestrial CDMA network, that a similar technology could be used for the LEO constellation. If so, it would be interesting to guess at what the $/bits of internet access would be even at a $1.50 to $2.00 per minute connect. Didn't China (WTO or no WTO) just make a big push into CDMA?

To: Jeff Vayda who wrote (8571)	12/6/1999 3:47:00 PM
From: FWS	Respond to of 29987

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and in this last sunday newspaper there is an ad for Iridium with a rather nice picture of a Kyocera KI-G100 900 GSM phone..(reading the fine print) Maybe the phone in the picture is a different phone but it looks rather nice actually. The deal is that if you sign up with i-access world paging service you get a free phone. Can anyone make heads or tails of this?? chris

To: Jeff Vayda who wrote (8571)	12/6/1999 3:55:00 PM
From: Rocket Scientist	Respond to of 29987

GMPCS has put up a detailed "Satellite Services Comparison Matrix" at gmpcs-us.com compares G* with Irid, Inmarsat in various flavors and ACes. Makes G* look quite good (though I think it's a little unfair to poor IRIDQ)

To: Jeff Vayda who wrote (8571)	12/6/1999 4:02:00 PM
From: John Stichnoth	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29987

A visit to Barnes and Noble magazine racks yielded the following G* ads: Yachts international--None Motorboating and Sailing--None Professional Mariner--None Yachting World--None American Ship Review--None Offshore--None Sail--None Yachting--None Sailing World--None Adirondack Life--None Montana--None Down East--None At which point I grew discouraged and left. All of these magazines are oriented purely at the US market, the first group to the maritime crowd (of course) and the second to those rugged individualists with too much money who want to be able to get away from it all (for Maurice: Down East is slang for the state of Maine, the Adirondacks are northern New York State). I would think the decision to use any of these magazines would be G*USA's choice--ie., Vodafone/Airtouch. Maybe the January issues will have something. Best, JS