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

To: tensforme who wrote (13609)	6/16/2000 7:08:00 PM
From: Don Johnson	Respond to of 29987

<<No, I suggest that everyone here is missing the key point: Our potential G* customers are NOT the typical cell phone users (like myself) who will switch plans in a heartbeat because of a better pricing plan. Rather, we are talking about individuals who are trying to understand what satellite coverage is, how it works and how it would work in conjunction with their existing cellular plan, which in most cases suits them just fine. No, it is definitely NOT even primarily a pricing dilemma; it is a matter of persuading these potential customers that they NEED (NEED!) satellite service. Educate them. They won't buy until they know who and what G* is. >> Boy do I ever agree with this. I am a cell phone user, both digital and analog, and I been dreaming about satellite phone since I first heard about it but their marketing is atrocious and their information is downright awful. All they would need for me to get started with them is put on a website the sort of straight talk a phone user needs to know about what to expect. I complained by email and all I got was some lame marketing information. If someone gung-ho like me can't convince himself to sign up, what about the rest of the population? Great technology, but Globalstar sales/marketing have been shooting themselves in both feet.

To: tensforme who wrote (13609)	6/17/2000 2:06:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

<let's say AirTouch/Vod is paying $0.45 a minute to G*, what do you think is their lowest pricing point? They want to make a tidy profit and I would be surprised to see them come below $1.00 anytime soon for domestic calls. Is this a reasonable assumption???? > No it's not. That would give them 55c a minute gross profit and all they have to provide is a gateway worth $10m instead of a country-wide network for $$$$bns to provide inadequate terrestrial service for which they get about 20c a minute gross profit if they are lucky. Something like 20c a minute would be more reasonable. But of course there is also a selling job to be done, as you say. But it's pretty easy to explain what it is..."this phone works all over the USA, Canada and Mexico if you can see most of the sky coz it connects to a low orbit satellite, so NO voice delay"! Maurice