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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8624)	12/9/1999 7:00:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

*Order Globalstar phones here* gmpcs-us.com An extract follows on the prices... <Please Select Your Satellite Service Plan: Note there is a $50 One-Time Activation fee for all New Services Basic Plan: $29.99 Monthly Service Fee Airtime $1.69 / Minute Bucket Plan: $169.99 Monthly Service Fee 100 Minutes Included $1.49 Per Additional Minute Corporate Plan: $369.99 Monthly Service Fee 250 Minutes Included $1.39 Per Additional Minute Select Any Special Services: Voicemail for $9.95 per Month Small Message Service (10 Characters) for $9.95 per Month Airtime charges are for calls from anywhere in the United States or Canada to anywhere in the United States or Canada. Calls to other destinations are subject to additional International long distance charges. Satellite roaming charges for calls originating in Globalstar Service Areas outside of the United States or Canada will be charged at $1.99 per minute plus the applicable long distance charge from the remote hub handling the call to the destination. > More on handsets and service. Available now??!! <GMPCS will be selling the Globalstar dual mode phones for $1,495. Cost of a phone call within the USA footprint to anywhere in the world will run $1.39 to $1.69 depending on your service plan. Cost of calls originating outside of the USA will be more expensive but are expected to be less than $3.00 per minute. Detailed pricing plans will be available later this year. When does service start? Commercial service is now available. During "soft launch," which is expected to run until February 2000, customers will receive a 50% discount on satellite air time. During the soft launch period there is a possibilty that there will be periods of service interruption while the Globalstar satellite constellation and hub stations are fine tuned. GMPCS expects to have operational demo units available late this year, but has targeted February 1st as a start date for commercial service. > Thanks Rocket Scientist!! Maurice

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8624)	12/10/1999 6:26:00 PM
From: thomas_l	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Availability of Globalstar phones in Europe. I called few people today asking questions about the Globalstar phones. It looks like the Telit GSM/Globalstar phone is now available and is selling very fast even though Europe only has friendly trials running. The phone is big and bold but nice features and excellent performance overweigh the bulkiness. The marine phone BS was talking about in the CC is this Telit phone in a kit from ICS (UK company?), 400 sold in Italy and more announcements to come from other service providers. Ericsson is off to a very slow start,no units available! This seems to be the Ericcson style, very slow response to the market, late in producing new models, but when they come, excellent quality. Maybe Globalstar should ask Nokia or Samsung to make some fancy products, like the new Samsung phone with colour TV? The pre-sales according to my source are exceeding any expcetations. Just hope this is true. Thomas L