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

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (9338)	1/7/2000 7:27:00 AM
From: thomas_l	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Jon. There is a big confusion going on about services! In response to your discussion with Tero. Globalstar is serving two kinds of cellular markets: IS-41 (CDMA/AMPS) = Americas, Korea and few more GSM = rest of world. In IS-41 mode, two phone numbers will be needed for a couple of months according to AirTouch. In GSM mode, only one number is needed, the standards GSM SIM identity. This means, in few weeks (hopefully) I can take my Telenor SIM card, plug it in to my new Ericsson Globalstar phone, start taking right away in terrestrial mode, the switch to Globalstar when x-country skiing, sailing or travelling to USA. The additional nice feature with the GSM mode is the phones will have both mobile orginated and mobile terminated SMS messaging (which I donït think is available in the Qualcomm unit?). The Ericsson phone also has SIM toolkit capabilities so I can do my banking, read news, check stocks, and send email and faxes both in GSM and Globalstar mode. Less need for a PDA or a laptop!!! The more I learn about this system, the more I like it! Thomas L