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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (6501)	12/15/1997 1:51:00 PM
From: dougjn	Respond to of 152472

Thanks, Maurice. That was reassuring. (Have to quibble over one thing. Yacht owners (which I gather includes you, from your web site pictures) will be the FIRST adopters. The community has only been wishing hoping for it for a decade or more. Part of the roll out delays relate to groundstations, from what I understand. It appears that some (half?) are sort of on a wait and see basis, going a little slow. Re: competition. Well, the great thing is the I* is so much higer cost and lower capacity. <g> New competition will take years won't it? Seems like it takes at least four or five years to get a system up. The cost/experience advantages to G* to add a second layer of satelites would seem huge. (And of course G2 is on the drawing boards for what, 2001 now?) PS Do you own Lor also? Are you convinced that G had better five year returns from here than Lor? Doug

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (6501)	12/15/1997 1:54:00 PM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

It appears that G* will have only two prices in most situations--$.70 or $1.00/minute. Two phones now--G/GSM and G/AMPS/CDMA. Built-in modem has 7.2Kbps throughput. Talk times(this should get Tero all worked up) are 1 hour max in G* and AMPS mode, 3 hours in CDMA, 2 hours in GSM. Stand by times are 8 to 24 hours. Weight? Perfect for Tero at 350g. Bring a generator! Maurice, I think you are right on when talking about potential customers. The maritime business is huge. Don't forget the government(look at QCOM's latest SEC filing for info pertaining to their work in optimizing G* for government use). There are a lot of holes in cellular coverage in the world also. I think the problem will be too many customers--not too few. Of course, the exception is Korea where I have now learned from reading this thread that economic activity has reached zero Kelvin--absolute zero--no motion. Thus, forget the 34 Korean subscribers that were going to sign up.