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To: Investartist who wrote (15743)	8/14/2000 4:54:36 PM
From: Investartist	Respond to of 29987

Picture of Gilat payphone. Looks more like 1960 technology. Look at the size of that dish! gilat.com

To: Investartist who wrote (15743)	8/14/2000 4:56:49 PM
From: H. Bradley Toland, Jr.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

To all: is there a connection between G and this article? messages.yahoo.com I bring this up because I read a curious post last week about a private jet pilot who said he heard "things" he couldn't talk about while flying to Jackson, MS, home of WCOM. regards, bt

To: Investartist who wrote (15743)	8/14/2000 9:49:45 PM
From: BobRealEstate	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Investartist, in a sense you are right. If sat. phones in general selling, that has to bode well, just as Iridium's BK reflected poorly, for all the sat. telephony cos. in general. The disappointment in today's announcement lay in several things, most notably 1) There was a rumor in the market of fixed phone sales and it was wrongly attributed to G, when it wasn't G, the stock gave back its gains 2) G* has been held as the ONLY/HIGH standard in the sat. telephony business; to have second rate tech. beat them to the punch in their own market either reflects that G/SP's marketing efforts are in a shambles or that their fixed sat. telephony product is really not ready yet or is faulty. None of this is palatable to say the least. 3) G, despite the unbelievable depth of the potential out there, either can't convert that potential into dollars or won't or expects the process to happen by osmosis or something. It appears to be a terrible waste. In this case, I think about Maurice's example of billions of minutes rolling over the spillway wasted and unused.

To: Investartist who wrote (15743)	8/14/2000 11:00:35 PM
From: rhkohnen	Respond to of 29987

Deals in China are worked through the various ministries. Quality and marketing are secondary issues. What is important is preservation of foreign exchange. When I was there, in 1986, they wanted to pay for our consulting services in railroad wheels. We would be able to resell the railroad wheels to get our fee, thus they preserve their foreign exchange. Needless to say we did not do any business. For G* it will take something like QCOM opening up a factory in China. I believe that it was back in February that QCOM announced a deal with China, but then they backed out. This is one of he other problems which G* must face, besides, marketing, price and quality. It is also one of the reasons that G* needs SPs who already have ties with govmts and have a client base in the country.