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

To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (11308)	3/27/2000 2:15:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Respond to of 29987

It was on Businesswire among other sources: Talktime: 5 hours (GSM), 1.5 hours (satellite) Standby: 50 hours (GSM), 3.5 hours (satellite) And I agree that if you're on a yacht of within a cellular network the satellite stand-by time does not matter. Was this how the Globalstar "ascendant technology" was supposed to work? It's a satellite phone for you... as long as you're on a yacht or within cellular coverage. The bad news here is that the users inside cellular coverage will not contribute to the necessary 100 minutes-plus monthly billable minutes for G. I'm having a real hard time visualizing even 10 000 buyers for the Ericsson product; I'm not calling this contraption a phone. It's good that Telit has a better stand-by time; but it doesn't have the Ericsson brand. And that phone is not on sale. We all know by now what "available during the second quarter" means. I'm betting August. Ericsson was supposed to drive the GSM market sales. The Qualcomm phone can't be sold in Eastern Europe, Western Europe or Africa. CDMA networks in India and China do not cover several major cities - GSM satellite phone is the commercially viable product for these markets during the year 2000. Tero