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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8950)	12/28/1999 6:23:00 PM
From: thomas_l	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Maurice you are right, a mistake in my writing, I wanted to state that the satellites acted as repeaters, not as base stations. My conclusion from this is still that the bandwidth both to and from the handsets and to and from the gateway (through the satellites) looks to be sufficient to allow more data speed. I suddenly remembered from a SI post long long time ago (do not know who wrote it) that Qualcomm was indeed cooking something for their Omnitracs service to be used on Globalstar. I also agree with you, the current GSM system with additions like GPRS and EDGE do not have a long-term future. The speed upgrade is to little and to late. The winner is probably going to be CDMA2000 made by Ericsson with Qualcomm ASICs and software,...a funny thought isn?t it? My view, majority of new cellular providers are going to skip the middle steps of EDGE and GPRS and go straight to the fast lane. This will of course not happen right in W-Europe, because it is now served extensively by GSM and current operators need to protect their investment. The idea of universal mobile telephone service (UMTS) will only happen with CDMAxxxx and the help of Globalstar 2nd generation. Those who think broadband cellular service will only be implemented with terrestrial build out are going to loose big. Globalstar investors, think 5 years into the future! Thomas L