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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (14143)	7/3/2000 11:07:24 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Long-haul truck drivers are typically paid around $0.30 a mile. If a truck driver has to stop to make a phone call from a rest area, it personally costs him $5 for 15 minutes of stop. Plus the cost of the call for the trucking company. So, a Globalstar/Verizon phone can pay itself off soon enough. >>I'm sure many would like to have a phone in the cab which will work everywhere, including when terrestrial services are overloaded or out of terrestrial 'home zone' and paying expensive roaming fees.>>

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (14143)	7/4/2000 9:51:00 AM
From: Ed Hodder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

About the cruise ships, [discussed a couple of days ago] and the 200 mile limit, I suppose the 200 mile limit is a temporary glitch as the intention is to cover ocean as far as gateways will reach. Can someone explain the 200 mile limitation to me? It seems so arbitrary. Is it based more on legal limitations than technological? For instance, if it is gateway based and all US subscribers use the TX gateway then it needs to 'reach' 200 miles past the Maine coast. If it does reach that far then it's hard to understand why the entire Gulf and a significant part of the Caribbean isn't already covered except for licensing issues over land. Does the system know where you are geographically and make decisions about whether you can make a call or not? I'm missing something here. Ed