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

To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (11453)	4/1/2000 3:24:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Skip, I don't go along with charging according to how cornered the person is. Sure, charge what the market will bear, but charging because the location is on an oil rig or some other place would imply we could place a value on that call for the person wanting to make the call. I don't believe we can. That is the old KGB USSR model - 'the centre determines existence' [and anyway, the Service Providers totally control local pricing]. It is vital that the gateway sets the price according to demand at the time and the person making the call decides the value of their need at the time. Anything other than that will mean the system is not optimized for customer satisfaction and Globalstar profit. We CANNOT micromanage and second-guess the minds of our customers. All we can do is keep the system running flat out!! Some time before the constellation starts sending out busy signals [which will happen on a local satellite and gateway basis rather than a 'net congestion' type mechanism where the WHOLE system is full] Globalstar will need to have got QUALCOMM to develop such pricing software [assuming that somebody hasn't patented such an idea and QUALCOMM finds themselves in the absurd position of saying "Oh, DUH!!" and paying extorquerationate royalties to the patent holder If 'single click' purchasing can be patented then this ultra-sophisticated, totally unintelligible to all but the most vastly intelligent, variable pricing scheme will be like some patent holy grail. Sort of like the Theory of Relativity and Shrodinger equation, though those are simplistic by comparison. Maurice