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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (27821)	5/22/2010 3:57:53 PM
From: pcstel	Respond to of 29986

More on the Indian Spectrum Auctions... Confirming this, Bharti Airtel which bagged 13 circles including the lucrative Delhi and Mumbai circles, said, "we would like to point out that the auction format and severe spectrum shortage along with ensuing policy uncertainty, drove prices beyond reasonable levels. As a result, we could not achieve our objective of pan-India 3G footprint in this round". On an average, Indian operators hold 5.7 MHz of spectrum though Bharti and Vodafone have a larger spectrum holding. The winners of the 3G pan-India bid will now move to an average of 11 MHz per circle, which is closer to the international average of 18 MHz. timesofindia.indiatimes.com Globalstar has a total of ~25 Mhz of Pan-Indian spectrum... and nearly every other country also. PCSTEL

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (27821)	5/22/2010 4:47:21 PM
From: pcstel	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29986

I would guess those are Orange Groves.. Or Lemon, Or Grapefruit.. Probably not Olives or Avocados. Maybe Jeff has more knowledge on the exact make up of those groves?? Yes, that's a well-designed gateway - not a lot of money wasted on paving what will never have more than an infrequent vehicle visiting. Not a lot of buildings evident either, to house a swag of employees doing not much useful. No roads made of Gold Bars with the current owners. I hear the new TT&C facility in Botswana is in a mobile trailer setup. I still find it ridiculously amazing that I can just copy/paste those co-ordinates and zoom straight in to a detailed view. In many places there are also photos and I suppose links to web cams showing what's happening right there right now. What's also amazing is the build out of underwater fiber. Now, with landed fiber available in Palikir, Hawaii, and Tahiti. Globalstar can cover much of the expanses of the Pacific in areas that were once seen as the "domain" of Iridium.. The advantages of ISL technology will soon be reduced due to the availability of fiber across much of the far remote reaches of the world. A couple of Gateways in Mauritius and Seychelles will take care of the Indian Ocean. I suppose they could take the 9 Qualcomm RAN's from the nine 2nd Generation Hughes RAN's being installed in existing Gateways, and move those to these more remote locations until funding is achieved to upgrade to the Hughes RAN's. They do have the tracking dishes in stock from the old inventory. From the 2007 10-K... >The gateway became operational in July 2005. In 2005, we began construction of a new gateway in Wasilla, Alaska to cover the Alaskan territory and part of the Bering Sea. The Alaska gateway went into operation in July 2006. These gateways cost $2.9 million and $4.8 million (excluding $0.8 million for the purchase of real property), respectively.< So we will say about 4 million to build using existing/ used RAN's. I believe about a million of that is associated with the AeroAstro Simplex (SPOT) infrastructure. Hence the Gateway cost differential between Alaska and Sebring. PCSTEL