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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (12135)	5/4/2000 2:35:00 PM
From: Jeff Vayda	Respond to of 29987

Tero: from your post: So it's like a ghost product. There was the Uriah Heep party (to which I was not invited and remain bitter about). There were the press releases. But you can't find the product on the Radiolinja shops or website. You can't find any ads, you can't find anybody who has awareness of the service. Sounds as if there is an advertising budget from G* 'corporate' and one from the local folks. G* 'corporate' had the money to spend so they spent it. (not much judging from the act. As a means of dating myself - Uriah Heep was my first concert - and a very nice one at that.) Looks to be another specific example of the pathetic wholesaler / retailer coordination efforts. Jeff Vayda

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (12135)	5/4/2000 2:42:00 PM
From: Rocket Scientist	Respond to of 29987

Radiolinja has a press release about G* on its English language pages, linked below. As for the "existential" nature of G, at least in Europe, it's probably an understandable result of the market there, which is naturally small, even negligible, in most countries except for maritime users and international roamers. The maritime phones are only now becoming available, supposedly, and international roaming to most places of interest is still not available. Plus, GSM/G phone production started slow, and those phones will find homes quicker in Australia, Russia, China and the mid East than in W. Europe. It would have been better, if the European GWs had been opened a lot later than they were, to concentrate resources on better markets, but I guess national pride of G* European partners prevented that. radiolinja.fi PRESS RELEASE 3 April 2000 Radiolinja?s satellite service available to customers as of today The satellite service produced by Globalstar Northern Europe LTD, the company jointly owned by GSM operator Oy Radiolinja Ab and the Italian company Elsacom S.p.A, is now available. The service will be supplied by the national GSM operators in the Nordic countries and the Baltic states, and in Finland by Radiolinja. Each Radiolinja connection offers the satellite service as an additional feature. The customers make their satellite mobile calls using their own Radiolinja connection card and GSM number. Customer service and invoicing are also dealt with by Radiolinja. The service is of benefit in particular to people whose work or leisure activities take them outside the GSM networks. For example, the reach of a GSM base station does not extend to the open sea. Satellite mobile calls can only be made using a Globalstar-GSM dual-function telephone, which works within the reception area of the GSM network as a GSM telephone in the normal way. Satellite mobile telephones are manufactured by Ericsson and Telit, and they are currently sold in Setele stores. In the initial stage, the satellite service will comprise conveyance of speech, an answering service, network roaming and conveyance of emergency numbers and short messages. By the end of this year, it will also be possible to use a satellite mobile telephone for making and receiving data and fax calls. The provision of this satellite service to Radiolinja?s customers is, in Director Jouko Lintunen?s view, a significant step forward. "Our customers expect their mobile telephones to function in every part of the world ? and satellite mobile calls will meet these expectations too", Lintunen observes. A crucial element in the satellite service are the terrestrial base stations which provide terrestrial coverage, and via which the satellite calls are carried. Of the total of 38 terrestrial base stations that are due to be built, fifteen have been completed. By the end of the year, a similar number of new terrestrial base stations will have been introduced ? and the service will then cover more than 100 countries. "In the initial phase, the satellite service sold here in Finland will function not only within Finland but also in Sweden and Denmark. Norway and Lithuania will be included shortly. By the end of April, our objective is to extend the service to cover the reception areas of other Globalstar terrestrial base stations that are already in operation. Globalstar also has a terrestrial base station in Finland, at Karkkila", says Globalstar Northern Europe?s Managing Director Seppo Hautam„ki. For more information, please contact: Radiolinja: Director Jouko Lintunen, GSM 050 2920 Globalstar Northern Europe: Managing Director Seppo Hautam„ki, GSM 050 506 6870 and Marketing Manager Tero Brandes, GSM 050 506 5115

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (12135)	5/4/2000 2:59:00 PM
From: rf_hombre	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Existentialism and G* Tero: the pciture of those branches hiding what appears to be a G* Gateway is pretty existential and understated. I did find in the page radiolinja.fi a rather shy reference to the sale of ERICY and TELIT phones in SETELE stores. Are they not selling them?

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (12135)	5/4/2000 3:46:00 PM
From: Veiko Herne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Tero I'm glad, that Radiolinja haven't done any marketing campaign yet. Who will want to watch those naked finnish guys, with fat beer stomach in sauna, using mobilephones from Radiolinja TV commercials. Those kind of advertisements will kill all the possible market, they can have. Anyway, I got small position of GSTRF stock recently from Soros sales (< $10) and happy with the stock movement. As I'm traveling to Malaysia and Indonesia soon, can anyone confirm, will the G* phone work there? What comes to Estonia, I was sure, that G* don't get mobile license here and so is the current situation. The minister of telecommunication told me privatly over 1,5 year ago, that no more cellular operators needed in Estonia and specially some US satellite operators. Still I don't understand, how our government can control this. If the control from G* side is position, does the phone work in harbour or airport, when I'm in tax-free zone. Can anybody confirm, how the control is made? Veiko