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To: E Haiken who wrote (3540)	3/21/1999 12:27:00 PM
From: Valueman	Respond to of 29987

Just so it is not forgotten, remember that the government will be a significant customer of G* as well. Note the references to G* in this somewhat old link: nsa.gov:8080/programs/missi/condor.html At the QCOM analyst meeting, there was a booth for secure communications. One of the products in development is a secure mobile G* gateway for the military. G* phones will be part of this CONDOR project. Just be quiet about it---it's top secret! Let's take RMiethe's educated guess of 200,000 government phones. When G* can do the same secure job for routine communications, one should expect much more government business to go to G* if they are using any common sense(a stretch I know). Let's say half these phones are military. Probably more than half would be military, but let's use 100,000. In a major conflict, most of these would be in constant use. Let's use 2 hours per day each. That is 12 million minutes per day. What is the Iridium capacity per day? Well, lucky for G, it is 4.1 million minutes. Play with the numbers however you would like and there is not a peak capacity "margin of safety" for the military using Iridium. They would have to have G capacity as well. Of course, they have their own MILSTAR system via GEO, ably controlled by ViaSat's technology, but for commercial LEO needs, they will have to have both.