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To: Snake who wrote (2695)	4/22/1998 8:07:00 PM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10852

Amen Bill

To: Snake who wrote (2695)	4/22/1998 9:48:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Respond to of 10852

I, for one, will lean on management to provide capacity for each system, not someone posting on a message board. If you talk about the size of a gasoline can, then the capacity is a straightforward, linear thing. It either holds X amount of gas or it holds Y amount of gas. When talking about the capacity of a communications system that has geographic, time and infrastructure variations, there is no linear "capacity." So, how are these two capacities mearusred? Bandwidth of a given groundstation? Bandwidth of a single sat.? Total number of billable minutes? If its total number of billable minutes, what are the assumptions about customer distribution and calling habits? Its not like we're talking about a straightforward measurement (tonnes of steal per week) here. I've provided a calculation based on two verifiable values. In response I've been given sound a sound bite from one person on a given ocassion with no explanation of the context or meaning of the statement. If you want to say that Globalstar has more capacity, in a broad general sense, then I'm not concerned. But when people make claims of specific values, like "12 times the capacity of iridium" then one has to ask where that number comes from and WHAT DOES IT MEAN. Otherwise it is even more meaningless than saying "Iridium has more capacity because they have more satellites." At least in that case its clear where the concept of capacity is coming from. Dragonfly