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To: Asterisk who wrote (14783)	9/10/1998 3:46:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Globalstar crashed! 12 eggs turned to scrambled eggs. So what was the live feed saying that all was going well for ages into the launch? 'Acquiring' several of the satellites over Korea. Waiting for them to show up in Argentina. I guess they never showed up. quote.bloomberg.com ersion=news.cfg biz.yahoo.com That is one very big failure. We've gone from nearly half the satellites up to damn all in a few hours. It can't take that long to find out the satellites are lost in space or the Pacific. This is going to need lots of explanation. Oh well, at least Iridium doesn't work either. We can lose trillions more than the Japanese at this rate. Was the live feed a fake or have Reuters, Bloomberg and CNN been conned by some Russian spokesman, Vyacheslav Mikhailenko? How come Russians are telling shareholders instead of the Loral people who are supposed to be running the damn satellites. Welcome to the day Qualcommians. So far, it doesn't make sense. The real time discussion was all great. First stage, second stage, fairing off, satellites dropped out. Now they say on the ground. Surely they have radio transmissions in the bloody rocket, with GPS reports on altitude, attitude, speed and all the drama. It can't just suddenly turn right and go back to earth when the satellites are out. Has to be a Russian April Fool. They sure have me going!!!! But nothing from bloody Globalstar. Wake up!!! Give us position reports on these satellites. Mqurice PS: The chickens have come home to roost.

To: Asterisk who wrote (14783)	9/10/1998 6:40:00 AM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Michael: I am not arguing the validity of the Q's patents. I appreciate the history of spread spectrum, but I am fully aware of that. One thing I don't understand is your comment: I think that anyone that you ask on this board would encourage other companies to come up with new and novel ways of applying CDMA. The ETSI is trying to come up with different ways of using CDMA. When someone has a solution and is demanding exorbitant (in the licensee's view) royalties (However, any royalty may be contrued as exhorbitant, but I am not arguing that) different implementations occur. Look at Intel with Slot 1, AMD has come up with Slot A. Cyrix with their Media GX? IBM with their MCA bus? Rambus with their RDRAM design? When an entity demands a royalty(exhorbitant, or not) off of their IPR, they run the risk of alienating the market. dave