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

To: ebg51 who wrote (26149)	11/1/2006 2:29:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

One of the big drawbacks of terrestrial services is the high cost of roaming, which is much more than Globalstar could charge if they wanted to and similar to what they now charge. Coverage has always been the number one function that's required. Sure, it's nice to have a calculator and PDA function, but they don't help the primary function of talking and listening. No coverage = a dead phone. While phones were very expensive, people did think in terms of either/or. People didn't even have one phone, let alone two. Swarms of people now have two or more phones. When upgrading, people don't just throw out their old phone. We have spares sloshing around the place. But the process of integration is well underway, so phones are multimode/multiband, making it possible to use GSM here, CDMA there, Globalstar over there, 3G where it's available, and wifi for cheap service. The cost of making a phone multimode/multiband is dropping quickly as numbers build and technology improves. It is simply uneconomic to have terrestrial service cover everywhere. Even quite significant towns [with names] are not covered in New Zealand and elsewhere, let alone spaces between. telecom.co.nz Mqurice