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

To: Dragonfly who wrote (1559)	4/9/1999 12:14:00 AM
From: G Fisher	Respond to of 2693

Comments; 1. Dragonfly and his crystal ball, what would we do without them? 2. "The stock has moved up 50% since the low 10 days ago." My figures show this stock has moved down over 50% since the first of the year. 3. US Digital Communications, Inc. - usdi.net

To: Dragonfly who wrote (1559)	4/9/1999 1:13:00 AM
From: ML	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2693

"This isn't true." I don't wish to get into one of those "Yes it is!", "No it isn't!", "Yes it is!", "No it isn't!" arguments like the old Bugs Bunny cartoons. My position is that Iridium phones are not designed to work with modems, and will not work with modems. (I believe that they intend to offer a data service later, but you do not hook your modem to your Iridium phone to make this work.) If you believe otherwise, by all means, please hook your modem to an Iridium phone, and perform that audio path time delay measurement we were discussing. We await your results. It will also be also interesting to have that data service when it is available. However, it cannot be used to measure the delay in the audio path, because the data service won't go thru the vocoders. For this reason, and likely many other differences, delay in the data service will not be the same as the delay in the voice service.