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To: Greg Rosoff who wrote (43275)	5/17/2000 11:50:00 AM
From: richard w allgaier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 45548

Think about this for a moment. Motorola took a tremendous tax write-off when the Satellite was shut down. Correct me if I am wrong but that satellite was, I Believe, just shut down, not made permanantely non-functional. With the size of the tax write-off from the satellite loss, Motorola could well afford to pay tax consequences for any company they might acquire and the Fed would probably love them for it. Something to think about anyway!!! That satellite, if capable of reactivation is definitely what one would consider"infrastructure in place". In addition, partially, the reason the project flopped was probably the cost prohibitive factor, plus bad timing. However with Palm wireless coverage SOON and all the other wireless stuff coming out, access rates would be a whole lot cheaper, and maybe then the timing would be right. Reliability of coverage factor is difficult to beat when the direct "line of site" is from sychronous orbit!! Rick