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Technology Stocks : METRICOM - Wireless Data Communications -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chip Anderson who wrote (708)	5/8/1998 8:02:00 AM
From: Snowman	Respond to of 3376

Can anyone give me a reason to invest in MCOM now? anything happening in the near future? Stock price looks like it is bleeding away bit by bit. If it dips below support at 10 bucks things could get interesting and may present a good buying opportunity.

To: Chip Anderson who wrote (708)	5/8/1998 9:53:00 AM
From: WTC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3376

Chip, if you had an idea to use Iridium services for internet access, you have a lot more money for access and patience for screen paints than most us do. Iridium operates with 4.8kb/s vocoders; that sets a limit on the data throughput of a single, ~$3.00 minute channel. More likely for a data connection, you would be able to operate at a significant fraction of 4.8kb/s. I suppose one could try to concatenate individual channels, at a price of Nx$3.00, but not me. My net is that the Mobile Satellite Service systems do not look like internet access platforms -- and that also goes for Iridium's company in this niche: Globalstar and the planned MCHI and CCI MSS systems, as currently planned. Satellites seem to me like a red herring in the consideration of competitive systems for portable internet access.