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

To: Pierre who wrote (13513)	6/14/2000 8:07:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

<...a recent conversation I had with a G* tech indicated Q may not be without sin in this arena. Apparently G* USA has been asking for accessories to make the phone more user friendly, and Q has been none too responsive.> I suppose until Vodafone starts selling phones, Q! won't be much interested in doing extra work for a few customers. Vodafone and other service providers need to cut their prices, sell some phones and THEN Q! would go on to more active development. Vodafone, Elsacom and a few other service providers seem to think everyone is there to pump money and effort in their direction. It's a share-bargaining situation on the retail price which is being carved up thus [in the USA]: $1 to Vodafone [greedy pigs] 45c to Globalstar LP 10c to Q! [dividing the wholesale price of the phone by the number of minutes it will handle]. The investment to produce that income is the reverse - huge investment by Q! since 1990 to produce the handsets and system, $$bns by Globalstar LP to build the constellation, and a few million by Vodafone to build a few gateways [and to hire salespeople who do a bad job of selling phones]. So Vodafone can stop whining and start cutting their greedy prices and upfront chunk of capital for the phone. Tell their salespeople that there is a product called Globalstar and start selling. If Vodafone got 10c a minute for the first year or two, GLP cut the wholesale price to 20c a minute and Q! got the usual wholesale price for the handsets, then things would move and fast. Vodafone could include the handset price in the minutes to avoid sticker shock and fear of failure by the subscriber. Maurice PS: There already is a car kit aerial, with a magnetic base, easily placed on the vehicle roof and VERY high speed wind resistant [okay on German autobahn on a BMW] though I suppose a bird-strike would dislodge it. Marathon cyclists would love a methanol fuel cell battery.