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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (12345)	5/7/2000 11:59:00 AM
From: Geoff Goodfellow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29986

Tero, you play an excellent devils avocado here, please don't stop or go away (give up your adiction). A fan, Geoff

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (12345)	5/7/2000 12:27:00 PM
From: Veiko Herne	Respond to of 29986

Tero Thanks for honest answer. Nobody wan't You to leave. But are the reason to Your negative comments, that nothing had happened as fast as You expected? What I have read from Your post is, that You expected mass market for SAT phones, that will be next step after GSM. This can be happen after 3-5 years and G* needs much less to survive. Veiko P.S. I will be in Helsinki on thursday, next week.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (12345)	5/7/2000 3:46:00 PM
From: JMD	Respond to of 29986

tero, it must have been the "one Bud short of a six-pack" that finally won me over. Though I neither doubt nor regret the CDMA/HDR tsunami that will roll over Europe and relegate GSM to a Dickens footnote, we have at least, and at last, found common ground on Globalstar. Having debated G*'s technical merits to a fare-thee-well and convinced myself beyond doubt of its inevitable superiority over Motorola's Iridium, I forgot about the management thing. This little whoopsie has cost me some serious dough, an outcome that almost always precipitates a simultaneous loss of good humor to my fellow man. Unfortunately, the only man to blame is me, for I discovered many years ago that there is no technology so cool that it cannot be screwed up beyond all hope of recognition (not to mention profit) by incompetent management. Shame on me, a valuable and expensive lesson that shouldn't have to have been re-learned. The same phenomenon occurred with Ericsson, and it seems to me that's why YOU didn't "see" it coming: it just beggars the mind that folks could be so damned stupid, particularly when they're so damned smart in other areas. It's a little like "oxymoron" on steroids.] I can't wait to see if Nokia will choose to learn from history or repeat it. Kind of like the Russians messing around in Afghanistan, after watching us bury ourselves in blood and idiocy in Vietnam. But did that stop 'em? Hell no. Individuals, corporations, nation states--all can be one beer short of a six-pack. Thanks for posting. best, mike doyle

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (12345)	5/8/2000 6:16:00 AM
From: rf_hombre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29986

Tero, We seem to agree on the technical success of G. I also agree that we need not segregate ourselves into convenient little categories across party lines. Where our viewpoints seem to diverge is about the relevance of 1Q numbers. You claim that service has been available in France, Italy and Brazil for "months". In fact the first of the three planned Gateways in Brazil was not in service for most of 1Q. Second, the Aussaguel and Avezzano Gateways covering southern and central Europe were not the most judicious choice as pioneering Gateways. This is not to say that Tesam and Elsacom will not make money but rather, there could have been more of an urgency to get China or India for instance on line. Of course, getting a layer of cdmaOne hovering above the Etsi skies could have had a political motive behind it...but i digress here. The point i am trying to make is that MOU will not be significant, if you want to make a valid comparison with Iridium, until a decent global footprint is available. Sure, there is an annoying, brash, overconfident DOD style "we know better" arrogance making its way down from G's leadership. That coupled with what seems as overoptimistic subs projections for 1Q are not certainly not helping shareholders. But in the irrationally exuberant market of late 99 and in the context of Iridium's demise, I don't think BS had any other choice but to stick to his guns. Anything short of that, even the plain truth, would have been misconstrued by the perverse and twisted logic of the market. But let's see what happens this week with new add campaign in the USA and the conference call.