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To: Ed Hodder who wrote (14161)	7/4/2000 10:23:16 AM
From: Rocket Scientist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Ed, the 200 Mile (NOT KM) limit is clearly legal/contractual, not technical. It defines which and where a particular SP/PTT gets a piece of the action, and preserves national authority of telecomm traffic within (conventionally prescribed?) off shore borders. Later this year, N. Atlantic and Caribbean coverage will be available at distances greater than 200Mi from land masses. The SPs will be Globalstar Atlantic (Martel of Iceland) and GUSA, respectively. I believe Globe Wireless has a franchise for most of the rest of the world's maritime regions. It's kind of interesting to examine how the 200Mi rule works in practice in some of the more detailed coverage maps. For example, the Venezuela GW, owned by France's TESAM, has the right to cover the French Carribean territories of Martinique and Guadeloupe, 250 or so miles north of Venezuela, but not the Dutch territories of Aruba and Neth Antilles which are just offshore. So the coverage zones of GUSA region and TESAM Venezuela look like jigsaw puzzle pieces. Another example is in the Mediterreanean, which the French and Italian Gateways, technically, can blanket, but coverage within 200 miles of Libya is NOT provided. Hopefully all this will be transparent to the user, soon; but until all the roaming agreements are in place, it won't be so.