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

To: David Wiggins who wrote (9157)	1/4/2000 2:55:00 PM
From: RalphCramden	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29987

Why should international calls cost $1.50/minute more than domestic (US) calls? Landline international calls from US cost TO THE CONSUMER as little as 7 cents/minute ( to call UK using for example OPEX as long distance carrier ). Most of Europe is down in the 20 cent/minute range. Their wholesale cost must obviously be lower. And note that a G* international call from US is really a domestic sat-link call (from G* mobile to Gateway) PLUS a US landline call to international location (from US Gateway over PSTN to whereever). In my opinion, the logical extension of the success of "one-rate USA" cellular plans, with domestic long distance folded in to the airtime charge would be for G* to sell "one-pond, one-rate", selling calls at $1.49 no matter which side of the "pond" (Atlantic Ocean), they land on. It seems short-sighted to have more than double the profit margin on an international call as a domestic call, when you pretty obviously would LOVE to attract the consumer who does a lot of international stuff. We are expecting the Globalstar phones to cost $1,495 with airtime minutes costing $1.49 for domestic calls and $2.99 for international calls per minute. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.