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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (12150)	5/4/2000 5:22:00 PM
From: rf_hombre	Respond to of 29987

RS, the China Gateway placed its first test call almost a year ago. What do you think is taking / took so long in getting it commercial? China, 1000 Million People with a mili penetration rate should have been as high a priority for GLP as GUSA or G Brazil. What gives? Indonesia, with several thousand islands, no cell coverage on most of them and 150 M plus inhabitants would have been nice as well. Perhaps with the new governement...

To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (12150)	5/4/2000 7:05:00 PM
From: Veiko Herne	Respond to of 29987

Thanks Rocket Scientist It's something, that prospective G* customer want to belive, that my SAT phone will work everywhere with this price. Malaysia and Indonesia can be important markets for G* phone, not just Caribbean. How about Australian gateway? It should take the calls at least in Bali island. Iridium didn't had a cellular license in Estonia. Then we had another government and there was not a telecommunication law yet. The representative of Iridium was Estonian Mobile Telephone, a subsidiary of Estonian Telecom, 100% government own structure. At the moment, EMT want to get ICO representation. Radiolinja and EMT will believe around few hundred SAT phone customers from Estonia. Mainly truck drivers traveling to russia. This information is from Estonian newspapers. I won't be so pessimistic about G* license for Estonia, but it's just big task to get approvement from some officials at the moment. Estonia is child garden of EU bureaucracy with our current government, who's task is to be very impressive to EU. Still, I don't understand, what can be happen, if I will start to use G* phone now in Estonia. At least Airtouch told me, that I can use Qualcomm phone in Estonia in SAT mode. I hope, they are right and the local license is needed only to establish local invoicing and sales structure. Same time it's not needed, because every Estonian website can be affiliate to GMCPS for example and more and more Estonians are using internet for purchases. Veiko

To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (12150)	5/4/2000 8:16:00 PM
From: A.L. Reagan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

R.S. - Could you or Maurice briefly explain the G* billing and control system? Listened to the CC replay and I am baffled by BLS' comment that they don't know the # of minutes sold, and are reliant on the SP's to provide the info. It almost sounds that the satellites are effectively unmetered, with the "counters" being at the SP-operated gateways. This is a serious question (although it opens a bashing opportunity) but how does G* actually invoice the SP's, and monitor the minutes used? I hope it's not based on the honor system. I'd kind of assumed all the way along that G*/LOR understood "Revenue Accounting 101," but am learning the hard way not to assume that these aerospace engineers have a grasp of any business fundamentals, until proven otherwise. Wouldn't there be authentication devices on the birds which only accept signals from "authorized users" and could track the usage?