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To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (15226)	8/1/2000 6:04:19 AM
From: BobRealEstate	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Inmarsat is NOT competition in any great way. Hi cost minutes and hardware. Phones that are like the first cell phone I got in '91 (you know, you needed a bag and a strap to carry it around). Admittedly, their hard wired equip in boats and such is nice, but that's all and even G* has marine setups now. No competition.

To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (15226)	8/1/2000 8:36:45 AM
From: Jeff Vayda	Respond to of 29987

C'mon Geoff. You state G* is a 'zero billion dollar industry' and then you turn around and point to Imarsat as a competitor and a profitable one at that! So you say a somewhat largish handheld wont make a dime, but a laptop sized phone will continue to make money? Exactly what is it that Imarsat does better? Where is the value coming from? Perhaps Imarsat needs fewer customers at fewer MOUs? You talked earlier about 'stupid and lazy' or some such. I guess you are just the techie standout. You might enjoy spending your time digging for the 'best deal' and the convoluted way to maximize your nickel. You might enjoy moving to CZ land in order to make an extra buck. But to me, my time is worth more than that. I have no desire to plow through a satellite dish set-up to use a terminal. If I want have communications in a 'cellularly challenged area', I much prefer the efficient method of using something I am familiar with - a portable phone. I always enjoy the extra buck, but life is full of trade offs. Just call me lazy. I much prefer to simplify my life - not make it more complicated. I really dont care to exert that much effort to search out the cheapest cellular deal (Much less find the cheapest country!) But then, that is just me. Jeff Vayda

To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (15226)	8/2/2000 8:55:39 PM
From: Nancy Haft	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Geoff, I just took a gander at Inmarsat's home page. On behalf of Virgin Atlantic, Inmarsat has recently jerryrigged a way to forward GSM mobile phone users' calls to them on their own handset while in flight. Isn't that nifty? Betcha Virgin Atlantic is doing this because they think there is demand for such service. Betcha IFN is responding to the same demand. G* has always conceived of it's mobile satellite services as complementary to terrestrial service. The SPs are/will bundle mobile satellite, terrestrial, and internet into one device. One phone number, one device, one bill, with anywhere, anytime, any network service. That, I think, is brilliant and differentiates G* from the other satellite providers.