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To: YlangYlangBreeze who wrote (10679)	3/9/2000 3:52:00 PM
From: Cooters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

It may not have worked as a phone, but it sure shook up the three ladies at the bar when I cocked the antenna like a gun...... PS Maybe it was good cat and bad beans.

To: YlangYlangBreeze who wrote (10679)	3/9/2000 4:25:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Ying Yang, At least you will always remember NOT making a Globalstar call from Tijuana to call for medical help to treat your Cat Tacos e-coli. It seems incredible that half a year since the announcement of service at Telecom99, Tijuana is not in the loop. Those roaming agreements and other details which are not even issues should have been sorted out a year or two ago. Imagine where we'd be if Zenit hadn't crashed! We'd have a year old full constellation and still no service. The Zenit crash was a very convenient fig-leaf for the Service Providers [who are NOT great and wonderful marketers though they have pretensions in that regard]. It was a bit dodgy for you and Cooters to get a 'gun' out in Tijuana after the police chief murder! Even if it was just an aerial. On the vendor financing by Qualcomm, it's okay by me [being both a Q! and G* shareholder]. The money is safe from Qualcomm's point of view and since Q! has mountains of cash, it is better to send it directly to G* than send it via one of those silly banks which will be disintermediated when WWeb, 724Solutions, MightyQ and 384kbps Constellation2 G* have done their work. All the bank does is add an excessive % and pass it on - it was good to use vendor financing. I'm all for shareholders and MightyQ! putting more money into Globalstar. PROVIDED the minute marketing is being done right and that would be a good lever to ensure it IS done right, which it is not. Cutting the handsets to $1 won't get minutes used. That would just put a lot of handsets in gloveboxes and if a monthly fee is put on the contract, then that's just a way of saying the handsets are leased [or rented] instead of sold and THAT is a very good idea since a lot of people will be reluctant to BUY another handset to replace their Iridium one. Say I [still on the stupid puter on a sunny day] Maurice