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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (13247)	6/2/2000 11:24:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Buyphone.com doesn't tell us the regular price per minute. They just quote the promotional rates to 15 July, one of which is $120 for 100 minutes [$1.20 per minute] and $1.04 for extra minutes. Perhaps they will go back to $1.69 a minute after that. Buyers might wait until 15 July so they can find out what the regular rates are rather than get suckered into a special offer for such a short time. I suspect that the special rates will actually be reduced and extended to the rest of 2000. Maurice PS: Thanks RS for all the hunting down of urls about Globalstar. Meanwhile the SteemRoller[TM] is picking up speed [despite the inglorious efforts of retail shop staff - and, presumably, Barrons tomorrow]. It's a shame Globalstar doesn't have a graph showing the continuing increase in minutes being used right there on globalstar.com Hmmm, interesting, I just checked register.com and SteemRoller.com is available. Maybe we should register the name and go into the business of selling Globalstar phones internationally online. Disintermediate the useless retail outlets and gmpcs.com [and others]. None of them seem to be doing a very good job. We could get Globalstar.com to put a link to SteemRoller.com Vodafone seems to do okay with spelling like that. I guess SteemRoller might do fine too. Who wants to be Managing Director and make it happen? How's THAT for a Guy name? SteemRoller is quite brutal... steamroller.com is already taken! A little steam roller endlessly rolling down a road.

To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (13247)	6/3/2000 12:13:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

From gmpcs-us.com <High Capacity Polymer Lithium Ion Battery Pack This high capacity battery pack enables talk and standby times that more than double those of the standard battery pack. Up to 3.5 hours talk time and 9 hours standby in Globalstar mode; > Globalstar needs methanol-fueled fuel-cell batteries. It's okay to have 9 hours standby around town with power supplies all over the place, but when hiking in the outback, 9 hours is useless. 6 weeks is more like it. Also, photovoltaic charging is expensive, so where there are people roaming out the back of beyond, they need a convenient, fast and cheap way of repowering. Even in a Winnebago, it would be easier to clip another methanol tube into place than goof around with recharging equipment, waiting for recharge etc. Methanol is it! It's cheap, it's easy to handle, flash point fairly low and even with accidental ignition, it doesn't burn with a whoosh - just a nice, warm, invisible, gentle, flame. It's multifunctional. 500ml would be enough for a year, even with a bit of campfire cooking using the flame-thrower function from the end of the aerial - now THAT is Guy Stuff. Once cooking is done, the aerial can have the little lamp thing slid into position and hey presto, illumination for the evening. It's a great solvent. 20ml is a fatal dose, so NO DRINKING!! That's just one more technology advantage to come, which will preferentially advantage Globalstar over other technologies. The more technical advancements that come, the greater the coverage advantage becomes. Motorola and others are working on methanol-fueled fuel cells as you read this. They will be ready in a couple of years [according to Motorola 6 months ago]. Roll on, SteemRoller! Maurice

To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (13247)	8/1/2000 7:43:58 PM
From: Rocket Scientist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Updated G* phone price survey (see post 13248 for prices of two months ago). Since last review, most of the G* affiliates web sites have introduce the "Freedom" Plans with bundled 699$ phones, and almost all have lowered the "list" price of the phone to no more than 1199$. There are signs of competition driving the prices below that in several instances. The best deal for heavy users is probably at ICC skyplus.icc.com which offers the G* Q-phone for as little as 700$ when purchasing the Beyond 500 plan (500$/month with 500 bundled minutes, 0.99/minute therafter.) This is listed as a monthly plan, so one presumably could buy the phone at the low price than switch in a month to a lower cost service plan. For those not comfortable with that strategem, Buyphone.com will sell the Q-phone for 850$, for all the "Beyond" pricing plans bundled with 50 or more minutes... buyphone.com Of course, most G* dealers have adopted the "Freedom" plans, which gets the customer the phone for aboout 700$, but obligates him to a 24 month contract at a higher cost than the "Beyond" plans. Verizon, GMPCS and Norsat all offer that option, along with a list price of about 1200$ for the phone alone: airtouch.com gmpcs-us.com norsatglobal.com Airstar, with banner ad "we will not be undersold" does indeed offer the best "Freedom-like" deal, plus gets extra credit for jiggering slightly with the GUSA suggested airtime rates. Airstar customers save a couple of bucks on the phone and a few cents per minute on airtime relative to other GUSA suggested prices. The best deal is for those using between 250-500 minutes per month: they'll save 11 cents a minute relative to the GUSA suggested airtime rates (Hey! that could be as much as 50$/month!) Several sites are not publishing the "freedom" plans, but will sell you a phone at or below the list price with no (apparent) obligations to sign up for a plan. The best deal may be offered by "beeperdood" aka Gunnar J. Sandstrom, formerly with GMPCS itswireless.bigstep.com. 999.60$ and walk away with a new G phone... N. Shore Systems Group, World Comm Center and Preferred Communications are at the 1199$ list price, essentially: satphone-solutions.com worldcomcenter.com satstar.com You can get a phone from O'Gara for $1095, with a minimum plan of 30$/month, each minute is 1.69$ globalsatphone.com I could find only one dealer with published rates that has not lowered them since the last survey: Manhattan Microwave, which no doubt is the vendor contacted by all Wall Street analysts to assess G* sales, still offers phones at 1500$, and minutes at 1.39-1.69. Thanks, guys. com-sat.com