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

To: go_globalstar who wrote (23737)	7/6/2001 9:41:42 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

<London-based New ICO has proposed developing cellular service using radio-frequency spectrum reserved for satellite communications, the paper reported, citing a letter the company sent last month to FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell. The company said the system would operate in urban areas not served by satellites because of interference from buildings, the paper said.> The absurd application-based licensing rules have hindered such developments in the past. In NZ, spectrum is no longer designated as for a particular use when management rights are sold. The owners can do what they like with it. They of course choose the most valuable use. If they don't, they can't afford to be the high bidder. With CDMA, it is obvious that Globalstar should be able to supply service in that otherwise wasted spectrum in cities. A Globalstar handset in a city would whisper to a nearby terrestrial handset, not cluttering the space-links of other handsets because the signal would be so weak. When that handset is used in rural areas without terrestrial Globalstar coverage, it would crank up the decibels and call out to a satellite 1414 or 2,000 km away. The spectrum would be used more fully and more efficiently. It is silly to have subscribers blasting signals out into space when they could whisper 1 km to a terrestrial base station. Battery life would be better too. The subscriber would get better coverage because in urban areas, they are shaded from satellites but can make contact with terrestrial links. ICO has some clues [now]. The restructured or new Globalstar is going to have a rip-roaring business. I wonder if the Globalstar managers are awake to these ideas. Mqurice