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To: akmike who wrote (15890)	8/17/2000 4:26:12 PM
From: akmike	Respond to of 29987

Sorry all- I can't access the edit feature. The prior post shouldn't have the word not in the last line.

To: akmike who wrote (15890)	8/17/2000 5:13:26 PM
From: Souze	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

I agree that the G* market of pilots and outfitters may be large, but for phones, not for minutes. The battery in the Qualcomm 1600 has a talk-time of 3 1/2 hours or a standby time of 9 hours. An outfitter or a pilot is going to want to preserve that time for emergencies and not waste it in conversation. Extra batteries help alleviate the problem, but they don't make it go away. IMO, the profitable market for G* is not those who own it for security (and I'm one of them), no matter how large that market is. The profitable market is the one that comes with a power source for the phone and a place to affix an antenna- like a personal vehicle, a delivery van, a cruise ship or a commercial aircraft. A prior poster implied that Vorizon had made an inferior choice by installing a temporary cellular network for Montana's firefighters, where they could have provided G* phones. I disagree. The G* phone wouldn't cut it. Maximum battery life of 9 hours when the phone is turned on in G* mode, and that time is decreased by about 2.5 x talk-time; and the antenna would have to point to the sky for communication. Pretty high chance a firefighter would not receive an urgent message like 'fire has turned, heading back in your direction', because the battery died or most likely the firefighter was busy fighting the fire and wasn't concentrating on pointing the antenna to the sky. G* needs to get some traction in those power-source markets. I don't think that price remains a great issue. But I don't know what the obstacles are.

To: akmike who wrote (15890)	8/21/2000 2:21:01 AM
From: engineer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29987

Your right, he went out thru Ketchikan and went over to somewhere near Kodiak Island. All in southern Alaska. It is too bad that the G* guys are so focused on the highly wired areas of the world and not on the highly unwired areas of the world. Why would I want G* in San Diego where I have my choice of wireline plus 4 wireless carriers? but they are advertising ont he radio here and the newspaper here. As well as pilots, the boat owners would seem to be serious cusomters for this stuff. BTW - a great product idea is to have the GPS integrated into the G* phone and market it as a rugged all in one rescue/saftey device. The GPS does not interfere with the G* phone operations and coudl be added for a few more dollars.