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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (10140)	2/17/2000 2:47:00 PM
From: Rocket Scientist	Respond to of 29987

Radiolinja's PR on last week's opening of Finland Gateway adds some detail and a local color to the G* PR. radiolinja.fi PRESS RELEASE 9 February 2000 Finland's first ever satellite-connected mobile call has been made The first ever mobile call made via satellite from Finland took place on Wednesday morning. Olli-Pekka Heinonen, Minister of Transport and Communications, made this historic call from Globalstar Northern Europe's satellite ground station in Karkkila, Finland. Satellite-based mobile telephone services will become available to the general public from April onwards. Globalstar Northern Europe Ltd, the joint venture of the GSM operator Oy Radiolinja Ab and the Italian company Elsacom S.p.A, will be launching a commercial satellite-based mobile telephone service in April 2000. National GSM operators will act as service resellers in the Nordic countries and the Baltic states. Radiolinja will handle service resale in Finland. Minister Heinonen made his first satellite mobile call to the world sailing champions Petri Leskinen and Kristian Heinil„. The two champions were at a training camp in southern France at the time. A satellite mobile telephone with Globalstar services is particularly useful to anyone who is obliged to go into areas without GSM network coverage, either as part of their work or their leisure activities. The open sea is one of the places where no GSM base station area can reach. Minister Heinonen also made a point of speaking, via a satellite mobile telephone, with both Luigi Gasparollo, the President and the Chief Executive Officer of Elsacom S.p.A., and Tony Navarra, the President of Globalstar L.P. The satellite mobile telephone service complements existing GSM services. It can be associated with any Radiolinja subscription. Use of this service requires a Globalstar GSM dual mode telephone which functions normally as a GSM phone within the GSM networkïs range. The services provided by Globalstar during the initial phase include voice calls, voice mail, mail notification, global roaming, calls to emergency numbers, and short message service (SMS). The suite of services will be extended later on to include data and fax services and display positioning information on phone. Further information: Marketing Manager Tero Brandes, Globalstar Northern Europe GSM: +358 50 506 5115; e-mail: tero.brandes@globalstar.fi Founded in 1988, Oy Radiolinja Ab was the first company in the world to open a GSM network, in 1991. The Radiolinja Group comprises Oy Radiolinja Ab, the subsidiaries Radiolinja Eesti AS, SIA Radiolinja Latvija, Globalstar Northern Europe and Tresmec Puhelimet. The Groupïs net sales in the period 1st January - 30th September 1999 came to FIM 2.197 billion and it had a personnel of over 900. Globalstar Northern Europe, the joint venture of the GSM operator Oy Radiolinja Ab and the Italian company Elsacom S.p.A., provides satellite mobile telephone services in the Nordic Countries and the Baltic Countries.