To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (23981 ) 10/20/2002 2:58:37 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (1) | Respond to Well Geoff, it seems that Globalstar has outlasted YOU! Life is ever full of surprises, not all of them as much fun as we'd like. <The Dearly Beloved (Nearly Departed), like Iridium and ICO before it were just grand, wonderful, superlative visions >. Our Dearly Beloved has still not departed, a year on from your eulogy. But where are you?THREE YEARS since Bernie announced to the world in the overflowing tent, with maybe 200 jammed in, no standing room and overflowing, at Telecom99, in Geneva, with Irwin Jacobs sitting impassive in the front row, [failing to nod enthusiastically when Bernie exhorted him to fire up the production lines and roll out those handsets], with "Oh, by the way, this is Tony Navarra" sitting alongside the central Hero, a Hamlet-like figure, of what has turned into a Shakespearian tragedy. There was Mike Kerr of GlobalstarUSA getting bolshy over in the right hand side of the tent, saying they'd sell Globalstar in the way they wanted to thank you very much and not jumping to Bernie's tune, yours truly in the aisle [along with swarms of media mavens and others like spectators at a modern Coliseum] asking why the price couldn't be set at a level to actually attract customers and fill the thing up quick smart. Bernie twice mistakenly calling the satellites 'aeroplanes' [which in a way they are, since they have those energized photovoltaic wings to keep them up], which did make me wonder just a little about how Freudian or otherwise detached from reality the whole scene was.
