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To: Snowshoe who wrote (69040)	5/2/2008 12:11:26 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Globalstar should be of great value in all that low population wilderness. SPOT should be an essential for 100,000 people in Alaska. Globalstar should get the next constellation up and make minutes free [until gateways and their satellites in view get overloaded]. I have been on snowmobiles in Canada and I would NOT want to go without both SPOT and a Globalstar phone. I considered what we did hazardous = charging around forests at night on snow mobiles in -20 degrees. Even my salesman's driving job on highways was hazardous enough that I would have definitely had a Globalstar phone and SPOT. There were plenty of small country roads which in a snow storm one could find oneself in trouble. Which I did once, despite being what I thought was very careful. I stopped at a little bump of dirt on a dirt road and peered at it, deciding that it was okay to go over. But damn it, the front wheels dropped into a little groove in the road which appeared to have been dug as a tiny drain by some local yokel. Fortunately, there was a farmer nearby who got me out. No, it wasn't a toll collection point for city slickers - no payment was required. If a snowstorm hit just as my wheels hit, I might have been snowbound and doomed. Days later a frozen lump on the road would have been excavated and my frozen body found. Mqurice