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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3323)	8/14/2001 9:10:45 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Respond to of 12231

I never saw any crocs. Plenty of elephants, giraffes, and hippos though. Even a leopard. There's lots of solid ground interspersed with water water - I never saw any of the highly viscous liquid mud that the word swamp conjures up to me. I don't know about Globalstar for Botswana. You know I like the idea of fixed-site Globalstar phones for Africa in general. Botwsana has a higher mean income than most of Africa, but their infrastructure isn't bad anyway. My brother is there (we are an itinerant family), when he moved towns it took a two or three months to get a new phone service. That doesn't seem too bad to me, it used to take as long in Britain not so long ago. I don't know if they have a cellular system outside of the capital. The sparseness of the population probably makes cellular uneconomic. I don't think there are enough mining concerns, field scientists, aid-workers, or tourists to provide much demand. Most of those relish being cut-off. If and when satellite phones become established, then some of the field-workers might be given the phones by their superiors but they would not be used much. I posted these concerns a long time back on the Gstar thread. Still, if the hardware can now be had for almost nothing... Ashley