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To: TobagoJack who wrote (7695)	8/25/2001 9:56:59 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Jay, <I use a 18 months old Motorola L2000 triband GSM phone, use PCCW cellular service, and roam in all countries except Korea and Japan.> Does it work well mid-Atlantic? In 747s between Hong Kong and Los Angeles? How about cruising around in a car or RV across the USA? In a Brazilian jungle? <Not perfect coverage, but certainly adequate.> Korean and Japan are significant countries - no coverage there must be annoying. QUALCOMM will fix that because they are designing multimode, multiband, RadioOne software defined ASICs for phones so you will be able to roam even further than you can now, including Japan, Korea and all other cities around the world. But to really get coverage, Globalstar will be essential. Even where your phone does work, most people who go globe trotting don't have expensive tri-band phones so they are very limited in where they can use their phones. Your perception of 'adequate' might change if you can get total coverage. When financial excitement strikes or you really, really need to close a deal or you are bleeding to death in a 'dead zone', your satisfaction with adequate coverage might change. Then there is the small matter of roaming charges. How much per minute do those adventures cost you? A Globalstar phone can give you huge coverage globalstar.com and can undercut your roaming and normal per minute charges. They are still overcharging for minutes, but the new owners will price the system cheaply [I hope]. Globalstar doesn't yet supply service on 747s, over the Pacific or a lot of other places, but it will. Terrestrial GSM services will never cover the world. There will always be huge dead zones. When financial tigers roar, it doesn't pay to be all alone in a dead zone. Mqurice