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To: dougjn who wrote (2393)	3/31/1998 9:33:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10852

doug, have no idea what valueman thinks but I damn well know we're all gonna have one hell of a party when these birds are aloft and in ascendancy in the wireless world. (note incredibly clever ascendancy entendre') now the location of the party should parallel the untethered, anytime, anywhere communications world we are about to so profitably enter which suggests to me margaritas on the fan tail of the SS Loral. anybody know a skipper? Mike Doyle

To: dougjn who wrote (2393)	3/31/1998 10:12:00 PM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10852

Two way(uplink and downlink) Cyberstar service will be demo'd in late 98, and available commercially in 1999, at an equipment price of $1000. There will not be a need for the LEO system to provide this service. So, to answer your question, G* says there is 7.2 kbps throughput with built in modem where provided by the network. The real joy in all this will come when all the web sites so near and dear to us will already be on our hard drives, updated via satellite at any interval we specify. As new posts arrive on our selected threads here at SI, they will be pushed to our hard drives, or maybe every hour they are sent out. We can respond to all we desire and then send them back on the uplink in one chunk of data. Stock news will magically appear on the stocks we closely follow--no dial up required. Sports scores, highlights(full video), e-mail, portfolio updates, news, newspapers, etc. can all be fed to your hard drive very efficiently via satellite, cutting that telephone line umbilicus that so limits us now. That is what I am looking to get out of this "revolution." POS(plain old surfing) will still probably be done most efficiently in an asymmetric manner--that is, wire uplink, sat downlink such as DirecPC now. But, we shall see how it evolves.