To: Maurice Winn who wrote (27828 ) 5/23/2010 1:09:05 AM From: pcstel Read Replies (2) | Respond to But they argued that they had a deal with Primeco that nobody could get a better deal than Primeco. It was something like 30c per minute [as I recall] and they wanted to charge me 50c a minute. Crazy stupid high pricing. The concept that they could not get and few have been able to understand, and why I am not an owner of GSAT, is that there are things called: Consumer surplus Open Range has remitted to us its initial down payment of $2 million. Open Range’s annual payments in the first six years of the agreement will range from approximately $0.6 million to up to $10.3 million, assuming it elects to use all of the licensed spectrum covered by the agreement. Unfortunately, ideologues being as they are, once they are inculcated with their cult ideology, they are unable to think of a better way when reality comes calling. Other such cults are religious and more recently environmental. Rather than see the error of their ways, they prefer to go down with the ship or, as per Godwin's Law, in Adolf's case, die in the bunker taking all with them.
