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To: lerkip who wrote (10381)	2/28/2000 9:11:00 PM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

This is big news, IMHO. Thanks for posting it. LoF

To: lerkip who wrote (10381)	3/7/2000 8:16:00 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 29987

Globalstar Packet Data Modem lerkip, I saw this demoed last week in New Orleans at CTIA Wireless 2000. They were using it with a car kit and a laptop. They told me they had to run 400 feet of coax from the car kit up a roof support and horizonal to an antenna on the roof of the convention center. The car kit wasn't designed to work with a 400 foot coax run, but it worked anyway. They had it hooked up to small laptop. The guy in front of me used it to get some stock quotes and news from Yahoo. Some have criticized the 9600 baud rate. This is slow compared to wired fix position setups but is not too far different from what is currently available from most terrestial cell phone services which mostly offer 9600 or 14.4k baud. While cdma2000 (1XRTT), 3XRTT, W-CDMA, 3G, GPRS, and EDGE all promise more, they are just now or have yet to roll out and are not widely available. Critics need to remember that Globalstar is not designed to replace fixed line or existing terrestrial cell phone service but to fill in where no sevice is available. So even if local terrestrial cell service offers more, the Globalstar packet service would normally be used outside the terrestrial service area where, unless you want to use a more cumbersome GEO VSAT system, the choice is likely to be 9600 baud or zero baud. I'll take 9600 over zero anytime. 9600 will suffice so long as you don't need lots of pictures or video clips. At the CTIA meeting they interviewed the CEO of NTT DoCoMo about their iMode system which has been a big hit in Japan even though its only a 9600 baud service. Someone forgot to tell those four million current DoCoMo iMode users that 9600 baud is useless.

To: lerkip who wrote (10381)	3/20/2000 12:22:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29987

Maybe this data stuff is going to be more important than I've thought. It won't save us, but it'll help keep the wolf from the door. Globalstar was always going to have data and at one stage, OmniTRACS was going to swing onto it, though that doesn't seem to be the case now. But voice is what it's really about. For this constellation anyway. <NEW ORLEANS, Feb 28, QUALCOMM announced a new product for the Globalstar system, a GSP-1620 Satellite Packet Data Modem. QUALCOMM's Globalstar Packet Data Modem is designed to deliver clear and reliable digital data communications for urban and remote areas, using QUALCOMM's CDMA technology and the Globalstar Satellite Communications System. "The introduction of QUALCOMM's Globalstar Packet Data Modem demonstrates QUALCOMM's ongoing commitment to ensure that the Globalstar Communications System supports both voice and data applications," said Jerry Beckwith, president of QUALCOMM Wireless Systems. "This product is a significant milestone, because this enables Globalstar to be one of the first satellite systems to offer packet data and Internet services."< Maurice