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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tensforme who wrote (20561)	12/27/2000 9:39:47 AM
From: Souze	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

A Globalstar phone doesn't do everything a cell phone does. It will probably never work indoors. But you can use it when you're going 75 mph if you have a car kit; you can even hold the optional handset to your ear if you prefer that over the hands-free approach. But a Globalstar phone does things that a cellular phone doesn't. This morning, on national TV news I saw an interview with a town resident complaining that bad weather had knocked out all communication: "phone, internet and cellular". No way to get a message out, he said. Too bad he didn't know about and have a G* phone. He had to rely on a TV news crew.

To: tensforme who wrote (20561)	12/27/2000 10:30:27 AM
From: thomas-archer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

For the most part, since G* phone is dual mode or tri-mode, then it is a cell phone as well. Furthermore, if you are inside, then why do you need a phone anyway, the odds are you are landlined. On the data cable modem, does anybody know if this works in Sat mode only to surf the web or can you use it in cell mode as well at 9600? It would seem to me that Ricochet and G* should have convos on G* being the filler albeit at slower speeds unless Mac is correct in his slight of hand software assertion. Also, corporate seems to be a little too silent these days with G*'s enterprise value dwindling to minute levels vs. embedded P.P& E. I'm hoping it can only get better from here.

To: tensforme who wrote (20561)	12/27/2000 12:51:42 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 29987

Charlie, the nature of Globalstar is different from a cellphone, so it won't do everything a cellphone can do, and more, until they can overcome the physics of a huge distance to the satellite compared with a terrestrial base-station and make the handset small and light enough with a long enough battery life that subscribers don't notice, or care about, the difference. The difference could become quite a marketing tool - it would set REAL MEN and Cool Kids apart from the crowd. Provided it's not ugly and huge. The way technology is developing, with QUALCOMM's new radioOne for example, it might not be too many years before we are in that position. But terrestrial systems are zooming ahead with 3G and other cute services, such as precise 'where am I?' position location, so it will be a long time before Globalstar equals what's available with a terrestrial phone. But you can be sure that QUALCOMM understands that every Globalstar phone is a box for selling their many technologies. So they will be squeezing the dual-mode function into a seamless, convenient service with TOTAL coverage and high-quality. So Globalstar will in fact do EVERYTHING that a terrestrial phone does, but ALSO provides coverage to dream of. With Bluetooth, it would be simple to location an aerial by a window for convenient indoor use. This will all take time. Mqurice PS: RadioOne here: qualcomm.com™, a revolutionary new technology for Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) transceivers that uses Zero Intermediate Frequency (ZIF), or a direct conversion, architecture for the wireless handset market. Unlike traditional CDMA radios, which convert radio frequency (RF) signals to and from baseband in multiple steps — converting RF to or from intermediate frequency (IF), then converting IF to or from baseband — ZIF radios convert incoming RF signals directly to or from baseband analog signals. This direct conversion eliminates the need for large IF Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filters and additional IF circuitry, which significantly reduces the bill of materials (BOM), resulting in cost-effective multi-band and multi-mode handsets that can be produced in smaller form factors. "ZIF architecture has been the holy grail of many wireless communications standards," said Don Schrock, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "By developing radioOne, QUALCOMM will help enable the rapid and cost-effective development of third-generation world phones capable of operating in multiple bands and modes." Until now, direct conversion for CDMA has been technically challenging because of the stringent interference specifications with which CDMA phones must comply. radioOne solves this problem by using new, advanced techniques developed by QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies (QCT) to enable high-dynamic-range receivers.