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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thomas_l who wrote (8580)	12/7/1999 7:16:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

<If Qualcomm can implement HDR or the GSM equivalent GPRS on to of G* I can not see why the 9,6k limit should exist.> Thomas, I have to plead some ignorance on this. Maybe Qualcomm can combine channels by upgrading cards in gateways. I really don't know. All I'm quoting is the data rates given for Globalstar Constellation1. Yes, Globalstar1 can be the uplink with downlinks provided by other satellite systems [apparently] but I suppose that will take some Qualcomm reconfiguring of gateways and handsets - maybe new handsets, not just new software. I really don't know but that's the impression I've gained. But the plain old vanilla Constellation1 won't be doing data other than 9600 bps per handset as far as I know at present. The real action comes with Constellation2, which will give some serious speed at 384 kbps and presumably even faster on the downlinks with data co-ordination with big Geostationary monsters. I'll be happy just to see that Constellation1 is full of happily chattering voice customers. Maurice PS: John Stichnoth, it's now too late to skoosh the competition if Craig McCaw has indeed picked Iridium and ICO up for a song. He can slash minute prices to nothing or really, really, low for the first two years, make a bit of money on the handsets, then after Globalstar is in the bankruptcy courts, increase the minute prices to slow demand to manageable proportions.