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To: I. Luttichuys who wrote (314)	1/31/1998 8:31:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Bennett, I feel the same on per minute charges, G* will be much less expensive than IRIDF, and can maintain that advantage for many years. The interesting question is the cost of an I* handset vs. a G* handset. When the systems were first announced, an IRIDF set was estimated to cost $3000 and be the size of a briefcase. I posted this to the Qualcomm board on Motley, and a Q* SVP of Technology came back and said that recent IRIDF handsets were no more than the size of a regular cell phone (perhaps slightly larger) and that pricing was a complete unknown. Then Iridium announced their sale to the military last week, and said that the handsets were priced at $3000 and some would "fit in your shirt pocket". It seems that nobody knows what satellite phone prices will be, though QCOM released a few samples at their promotional tent at the Super Bowl in San Diego last week. A friend of mine got his hands on one and said that it was 'phenomenol' and came from the 22nd Century--palm sized, and right out of Star Trek. Thought you would find this of interest. Mike Doyle