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To: Ken98 who wrote (25606)	10/7/2000 1:10:13 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 436258

The Teledesic announcement that they are terminating the prior agreement with Motorola that Motorola would provide satellites is a negative for Motorola but not for Teledesic, which wants to be able to buy from other satellite manufacturers. Motorola is an investor in Teledesic, and it gave up working on Celestri, a planned competitor, and rolled Celestri into Teledesic, which, as you probably already know, is a planned satellite constellation to provide satellite data and internet, but not phone, all over the world. It's probably not a coincidence that Boeing just got approval to buy Hughes' satellite division, making Boeing, I believe, the dominant satellite manufacturer, and Boeing is also an investor in Teledesic.