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Technology Stocks : Loral Space & Communications -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Larry L who wrote (2332)	3/25/1998 2:56:00 AM
From: Dragonfly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10852

Did some checking and dug this up: Launch slots unallocated but purchased or controlled by Loral: Sea Launch 10, Delta IIs 8 Soyuz 5. (From memory) I don't know if these slots or options have control over when the launch is scheduled. I'm not sure how disasterous a launch failure for G* would be- it doesn't change the fundamentals. In otherwords, how much of the value of G* to you is based on the fact that they will only be a certain amount of time behind Iridium? Also- growth of the mobile phone marketplace- 1995 60million handsets, 1997- 199 million handsets, yankee group predicts by 2002 it will be 529million (!). If %1 use Globalstar for their international roaming and average 5$ a month usage (remember most of the time they will be in range of a cellular network) that works out to be an additional 2.6 billion in Loral valuation if loral gets %40 of a %60 profit margin and trades at a multiple of 35 times earnings.