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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3517)	3/19/1999 10:30:00 PM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 29987

Maurice, that was Sprint's original marketing plan; guaranteed price for so many minutes until the end of 1999, if I recall. There was no cap, however, if you went over the number of minutes in your plan.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3517)	3/20/1999 2:46:00 AM
From: Geoff Goodfellow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

INTELSAT SHOWCASES RURAL TELEPHONY SYSTEM (Satellite Today; 03/19/99) Mar. 19, 1999 (SATELLITE TODAY, Vol. 2, No. 53 via COMTEX) -- Watch out mobile satellite services (MSS) operators, there's a new kid on the block ... Intelsat. Engineers from the international organizations are in the African state of Senegal to undertake a three-month rural telephony trial, aimed at taking business away from proposed MSS markets. The project is taking place with the cooperation of Sonatel, the Senegalese Signatory to Intelsat and will serve multiple villages using two VSAT/wireless local loop (WLL) stations. Engineers will demonstrate the technical feasibility of providing satellite interconnection for WLL installations through Intelsat satellites, including backhauling telephony services into the public switched network. "With this new trial, Intelsat intends to further promote a portfolio of rural telephony products from the stand alone VSAT, which provides a few lines, to various VSAT/WLL solutions, capable of handling 20 to many hundreds of subscribers in remote areas," said Fabrice Langreney, Intelsat's WLL project manager. Intelsat is using a DAMA network infrastructure supplied by STM Wireless of Irvine, Calif., operating via the Intelsat 603 satellite at 335.5 degrees E to conduct the Senegal trial. Intelsat hopes to market the VSAT/WLL system as an inexpensive alternative to the global mobile personal communications by satellite systems such as Iridium LLC [IRID], Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] and ICO Global Communications [ICOGF]. Calls made via the Intelsat rural telephony systems will cost the user as little as 10 cents per minute, compared to the several dollars per minute planned by MSS providers. Intelsat recently has established similar VSAT-based rural telephony networks in South Africa, Peru and Venezuela. -0- Copyright Phillips Publishing, Inc. This article was sent to you by an Inquisit subscriber who thinks you may be interested in subscribing to our service. To find out more about Inquisit, or to sign up for a free trial subscription, visit us at inquisit.com. Delivered via the Inquisit(TM) business intelligence service. All articles Copyright 1999 by their respective source(s); all rights reserved.