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To: MileHigh who wrote (10817)	3/14/2000 11:50:00 AM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 29987

It's more than just phone booths The "phone booth in the jungle" is a caricature of the opportunity. The real opportunity is linking a local phone system (whether wireline or cellular) to the rest of the world. For example, want to wire a village? You could certainly start with a phone booth, but that's not terribly interesting. How about a different approach where you put up a cell tower or two which itself has a satellite link and now every villager can simply use a conventional cellphone to call anywhere? I realize that G* has detailed no such plans as of yet, but this is where the technology is leading if you really want to bring modern affordable telephony to the unserved masses of humanity. Again, the individual villager is not the G* customer, but rather the governmental authorities who will subsidize this sort of service as an alternative to the prohibitive costs of building a conventional landline infrastructure.