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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1162)	4/4/1999 10:46:00 PM
From: Drew Williams	Respond to of 5853

Frank, I do not think this will be much of a problem for GlobalStar. Their Limited Partners (Airtouch, etc.) are some of the largest operators in the world with existing roaming agreements with more or less everybody else who is technically compatible with their systems. I expect these agreements will be extended to include roaming for GlobalStar's terrestrial cellular components. I may be wrong in some of the details here (I haven't looked at GlobaStar's web page in a while), but I'm sure there is some discussion about coverage and roaming there. Since all GlobalStar phones are also terrestrial cellular phones of either CDMA or GSM flavor, you just purchase the kind that works where you go the most. Travelling in the America's, that's likely to be CDMA. In Europe and a lot of other places, that's likely to be GSM. . . . But only for the next few years, since as all Qualcomm stockholders know, GSM is toast. <g> By the time GlobalStar is ready to begin service, I fully expect this will all have been worked out.