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

To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (20683)	12/30/2000 12:46:35 PM
From: Rocket Scientist	Respond to of 29987

Roaming in the US can still cost close to a buck. Charges of 67-99 cents per minute seem to be commmon as soon as one steps out of the digital footprint, which covers mainly urban areas and interstate highway corridors. That leaves a lot of space where roaming is expensive-if available at all- and is provided on an analog only sytem. My favorite story from the "and you thought Globalstar was expensive" file: A member of my household had used up her (generous) ration of "free" minutes on her cell phone. Needing to call home from a nearby community, she employed a payphone. But, not having any change she called ATT's toll free number (which she remembered from their constant TV commercials) and provided our baby bell calling card number to pay for the call. Resulting charge: 2.58$ for a one minute call spanning a distance of less than five miles. Unfortunately, she did that numerous times over several weeks before, I caught on to the reason our "long distance" bill was so high.