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To: Souze who wrote (16703)	9/12/2000 1:20:54 PM
From: Jeff Vayda	Respond to of 29987

Souze: Previous VLNC releases did not even mention the customer. It was assumed that Qualcomm was one of them. (I think some more concrete verification was presented, but I cant quote a post. I dont think all the batteries supplied went to a G* phones.) It is nice to seem some smoke cleared and the company mentioning Qualcomm. At any rate, the ramp up is positive, but as we have seen, the street is only interested in people using the phones, not merely 'having them in the distribution channels'. It would have been nice to see the production ramped up last quarter, but I'll take what I can get! IF they are going 24/7 on two lines, they could really pump out some phone batteries. Jeff Vayda

To: Souze who wrote (16703)	9/12/2000 5:56:32 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

20 bi-cells a minute, 9 bi-cells per battery in the G! QUALCOMM phone, 24/7. That's 20 x 60 x 24 x 30 = 864,000 cells per month with 9 cells per battery = 96,000 phones per month. with 12 months per year = 1.1 million phones per year. Telit and Ericy, for all I know, also use those batteries. Either way, that's too many phones given the demand shown so far and there has been nothing to suggest that demand has picked up that much. So it might be that these batteries are used for other purposes too. Or that Q! has decided to give the Globalstar production line another run so they have ordered a bunch of batteries. All guesswork. But at least it's a good sign. Irwin in the CNBC interview cnbc.com was his usual restrained, conservative, but hopeful self in regard to his expectation that Globalstar will succeed. On the aircraft approval for Globalstar, I suppose that if terrestrial handsets aren't approved, Globalstar ones would not be. As PCStel says, airlines don't have a lot of incentive to go to any trouble and they probably prefer to have people not use phones to avoid arguments among passengers. The more soporific and inactive the passengers are, the better the airlines will like it. The airlines would probably spray the aircraft with a tranquillizer [or put stuff like that in drinks or meals] if they thought they could get away with it. One day the pressure to use phones will get too great and the floodgates will open and of course people will use their gadgets in aircraft. PCStel, since there are NO Globalstar phones in New Zealand, I doubt that Air New Zealand would be the slightest interested in messing around with approving them. There is no benefit to their passengers so it would be a waste of time. Mqurice