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To: Robert Scott who wrote (1445)	7/16/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: Larry L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Robert Scott: In the future perhaps you should understand what you are talking about before mouthing off. "Iridium is a dog" now there is a statement that contributes a lot to the quality of this thread. First of all Iridium is also partnering with land based telecom, in fact at last count they had 195 contracts signed, covering about 3.3 billion people. Globalstar is not going to compete with Teledesic. G's parent company Loral is starting up Skybridge which will handle that task quite nicely. G will be plenty profitable and quite busy with just the voice, fax and paging end for quite a few years to come.

To: Robert Scott who wrote (1445)	7/16/1998 3:15:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Iridium is a dog I see, the GSTRF forum is now experiencing the onrush of "experts" that the Loral forum had to deal with recently, eh? Thanks for your illuminating analysis. I think Gilder is a good futurist, but he's no engineer. And while its enlightening to see his perspective (and spread spectrum is the way, going forward, most everybody agrees to that) you cannot conclude that Iridium is not viable simply because it doesn't support your favored technology. And, given that, as an attorney, I doubt you could design and implement either a TDMA system or a CDMA system, I find it interesting that you are concluding that Iridium is a technological dog-- based simply on the view of a guy who won't recommend specific stocks because he doesn't do stock analysis. It may prove to be a "dog" but its the only dog in orbit right now, and its the dog that will cover the whole world. Dragonfly