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To: John Stichnoth who wrote (11470)	4/3/2000 3:31:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 29986

<The new satellites would have big antennae so that they could see a weak signal from a handset. So that would allow a less monstrous aerial even at the forfeiture of some energy efficiency in the handset to provide subscriber convenience. With methanol fuel-cell batteries, battery life won't be an issue. > John, I meant fuel-cells for the handset! I suspect not everyone is carefully reading every sentence I write and committing it to memory. Meanwhile, quite a rout in the Nasdaq. Notice that Globalstar is not going along with the flow. Nextel is silly. Walkie-talkies with a single world-wide number is NOT what people want. They don't want to have ANY number. Not long from now, the whole idea of number portability will be irrelevant as people call somebody by way of an IP address. We'll either say, or type, johnstichnoth.guy and the call will go through to your Anita [TM] device. No more phone numbers, of which nobody can remember more than half a dozen. But people can remember thousands of names. Combine the name with an expected location or other detail and even JohnSmith.guy will be easy to find. He might have to go under JohnSmith.Bignose.guy or JohnSmith.Ekatahuna.guy as there will only be one person called John, let alone JohnSmith, in Eketahuna. No more phone books, directory service, yellow pages etc. Look, there is NO John Smith in Eketahuna: whitepages.co.nz But oddly enough, a search of "John" got John Woodhouse, with whom I was on a course way back in 1984! Or it's somebody by the same name? Hmmm... Need his url to see if it's the right guy. Until people got the hang of it, there'd be a few "Oh sorry, wrong 'number'!" calls. Also, a Nextel walkie-talkie is okay for a few applications, but really, everyone wants a Globalstar Constellation2 phone, with HDR [or 384kbps if that's really all they can manage], IP phone numbers, GPS and maps, alarm clock, fully WWeb, stereo digital camera, Bluetooth link to 3D glasses and stereophonic sound via EarCells [TM], methanol-fuelled cooker, vegemite dispenser etc... They'll want Cat's Eye's [TM] 'always available' service too! Maurice