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Technology Stocks : IRID - Iridium World Communications IPO Announced! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1464)	3/20/1999 10:48:00 AM
From: Geoff Goodfellow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2693

Motorola Unveils Tri-Band GSM WorldPhone as part of their New Digital Communications Portfolio (the L7089). biz.yahoo.com (full press release) HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1999-- CeBIT--Motorola (NYSE:MOT - news) today issued a strong challenge to its rivals in the battle for leadership in the wireless communications market. On the opening day of the CeBIT exhibition in Hannover, Germany, it unveiled a complete new portfolio of digital personal communications products and promised Internet-browsing capability across its entire digital mobile phone range in 2000. The new digital portfolio includes the world's smallest and lightest dual-band GSM mobile phone, the world's first tri- band GSM phone, a new mobile organiser for the company's StarTAC(TM) GSM phones and the first two-way radio product for European consumers. <snip> Digital communications portfolio At CeBIT 1999 Motorola is unveiling its complete new digital communications portfolio for the consumer marketplace in Europe. This includes: v3688 GSM phone The world's smallest and lightest dual-band GSM phone. Recently launched to critical acclaim across Europe. L7089 GSM 'world phone' The L7089 tri-band phone operates on all three GSM frequencies. This means with a single handset a user can roam across Europe, Asia and the Americas, where roaming agreements allow. The phone operates by voice command for not only dialling numbers but also replaying messages and requesting voice mail. It also features an InfraRed capability for transfer of data with a PC or other InfraRed enabled devices. When shown a preview of this phone at the GSM Congress in Cannes, March 1999, Richard Midgett, chairman of the GSM Association said: ''This is what the customer has been waiting for, a phone that truly enables the GSM dream - a global system for roaming in one simple handset. We challenged the industry to deliver this capability and we congratulate Motorola on being the first to respond.'' <snip>

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1464)	3/20/1999 11:24:00 AM
From: Joe Brown	Respond to of 2693

Tero: What a marvelous explication of the Iridium conundrum! I have not seen you on this board before, but it is clear you have an incisive mind and the ability to analyze the problem that's at the core of this sad tale. Regarding your European reports about the Iridium phone being unable to cut through tree foliage, the truth of the matter is...it's true. In fact, an analyst I know once wrote in a report on Iridium that the reason the antenna has to stick up so high is so it can propagate its radio waves above your head (which ostensibly would block them otherwise!). Calls I've made in the clear, however, have been excellent. Your analysis of the ultimate decision that must be made on this system is spot-on, I'm afraid. And your identification of the miniaturization of cellular equipment being the cause of a lot of Iridium equipment's lack of appeal is similarly on the mark. Please continue to make your presence felt here...you are an asset to the board. Jack