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To: Gerald L. Kerr who wrote (10328)	2/4/1998 11:35:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 31646

Gerry, <The question after that is how soon air travel could return to normal.> A few YEARS to fix, not months!! Airlines and FAA having MAJOR problems. This is where I've been focusing my research lately. Message 3312437 GPS (global positioning system) will fail August 21, 1999. Well before Jan 2000. All "receivers" will have to be changed out whenever they get the "fix" worked out. According to Senator Horne, at the rate Transportation Departments going, they should be fully compliant by 2015. Department of Energy is in the same boat. <telecommuting and video-conferencing should benefit....> IF ... we have electricity. LOL - Utilities WAY behind. So are telecoms. There's already been discussion about not accepting calls from certain foreign countries, come 2000. Some utility companies who have actually been working on Y2K already admit that there will be PLANNED blackouts, brownouts and possiblity of surges. They also admit good possibility of unplanned ones because of inter-relationships with others on the power grid. Most utilities haven't done anything on embedded systems. Weren't even aware this could be a problem until a couple of months ago. If things are this bad in U.S. - how about foreign countries? Cheryl