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To: Michaelth1 who wrote (15319)	8/3/2000 4:34:23 PM
From: go_globalstar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Michaelth1, Although not directed to me could you direct me to where you obtained your information for items 1 - 5. Thanks in advance. Slow_Globalstar

To: Michaelth1 who wrote (15319)	8/3/2000 4:44:22 PM
From: Rocket Scientist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

The product I've wanted to see for a long time is a vehicle-optimized setup that would be preferable to the many G* users that will never need to use their phone away from a vehicle. My idea is the handset is a normal cell phone in every way, except one--it has an outlet for plugging into an external, vehicle mounted G* antenna. When the owner is in terrestrial mode the handset would have the familiar small size, long battery life, etc of a modern cell phone. When plugged into the vehicle...it will work anywhere G* works. The vehicle mounted antenna receiver--freed of the power/size constraints implicit in a handheld device--should be cheap (certainly cheaper than the current asking price for "car kits.")

To: Michaelth1 who wrote (15319)	8/3/2000 4:52:46 PM
From: Jim Parkinson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29987

I will share what I know about these questions: 3. Current MOU pricing is not an issue, but the monthly fee is; waive the fee. This is being considered but nothing defintive yet. Some retailers have told me they have been pressing for this. They would like to see bundled plans i.e. one monthly fee for both sat and cell. Two monthly fees for one phone as I am paying doesn't cut it. 4. One number for cell and sat. (when will this be resolved?) This was suppose to be resolved by 4th qtr but I was told that resources are being directed toward data. The engineer told me that the technology is there to have this feature but it would require effort that they feel would be better directed elsewhere right now. It will be resolved eventually. In short, they are going huckly buck for data. Using a forwarding feature can get around this once voice messaging is available on sat mode - 8/22. 5. Cheaper / nicer car kits. In the works but not a priority. Fixing the marine kit is and developing an aviation kit. One would have assumed that this had all been done a long time ago. 6. Cell to sat handoff would be nice, but not necessary Tough to do. The handsets are on one number for cell and another for sat. This will even be the case when they resolve the one number issue as one number will automatically forward to the other. There really isn't any clean way to make the hand off. Once you are into the pstn, you can't just seemlessly enter it from another point i.e. a gateway, without breaking the circuit. It is a good thing that it would be nice but not necessary.