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

To: pcstel who wrote (21020)	1/8/2001 5:39:55 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Globalstar Gateway [GG] gets a wind test. The Dubbo, Australia, gateway is about 5 kilometres out of Dubbo, on a gentle rise, with a totally exposed position. news.ninemsn.com.au <The New South Wales city of Dubbo was declared a disaster area today as emergency services braced for more storms which could push the damage bill over $50 million. Strong winds, hail and heavy rain lashed the central western city on Saturday night, ripping roofs off homes and bringing down trees and powerlines. Premier Bob Carr declared the city a natural disaster area today as the Insurance Council of Australia put the damage bill at $50 million and the weather bureau predicted more thunderstorms tonight. The declaration means locals can draw immediately on government disaster relief funds and also seek longer term assistance such as low interest loans to help them rebuild.> The gateways should be built strongly enough to not only not blow over in strong wind, but to keep operating during the storm. I wonder how the gateway fared and whether service was lost due to wobbling in the wind. If normal telecommunications were damaged, Globalstar might have been able to demonstrate robust service for people who need secure service. Since the damage seems small, it's unlikely to have been a major test of the service. A tornado in Clifton, Texas, would be a better test! PCSTEL, <Don't be surprised if someday GMPCS services will also have to conform to the FCC Wireless 911 mandate.. And that means.. You will be able to buy a phone, stick it in your car.. Never pay a monthly fee, and never pay for airtime for "Emergency Calls to 911".. > If that happens, it's no problem. It's good! It means more phones sold, which means more profits for the Globalstar people in QUALCOMM who will be better able to justify technology improvements. Some of those 'emergency only' phones will be used to make other calls - people will sign up for service and maybe the stupid monthly charge will be ditched. Prepay phones with no monthly charges should be offered. The number of emergency calls would be trivial and no burden on the system. They would act as advertisements for Globalstar service. I'd like it if the FCC made a monthly charge illegal! I'd like it if they made emergency calls free. It would take over from the incompetent marketing we have suffered. There is no prepay service on Globalstar yet. Hopeless! Prepay avoids the need for credit management. There are many businesses which are dodgy payers who should not have credit but should be Globalstar customers. Prepay would work for them. Mqurice