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To: Reagan DuBose who wrote (3596)	6/2/1998 11:33:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10852

<<I doubt that G* will use GEO relay transmissions for voice data, and certainly not for their premium voice service. Might do so for data, paging, control signals, etc.>> I imagine that Rocket Sci's point is that from some locations, much terrestrial long distance is going to be routed via GEO's, and hence so will G* long distance calls. I would guess that will sometimes be true but rarely. The reason for the rarely is that I imagine that most groundstations even in third world countries will have access to transoceanic fiber cables. One would suppose that such considerations would figure into the siting. One can also imagine that for a few ground stations this will not be true, at least for some end point destinations. A call from Siberia to Australia, for example. Hey, isn't global telephony speculation fun? Doug