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To: John Stichnoth who wrote (3996)	4/20/1999 2:53:00 PM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29987

2700 circuits per satellite X 48 sats=129,600 circuits G* claims ~60,000 circuits available worldwide, which must take into account sleeping customers and gateways. North America has 10,000 circuits available, with gateways initially limiting that. Gateways were to be capped at 1,000 circuits, but that is no longer true. Didn't someone recently say that the Clifton, TX gateway was being upgraded? Can someone close to Clifton drive out there and get us a live circuit update? Converting circuits to subs is a statistical exercise involving the peak # of users at a peak time, generally late afternoon. They want those folks to rarely, if ever, get a busy signal. Also involves average call length. I do not know what number they come up with for subscribers. Gateways will limit capacity for a long time until sat capacity would be saturated, then they launch more sats. Sats reach 70 N and S. By the way, if a G* constellation designer/engineer/visionary is lurking out there and wants to anonymously contribute some real facts and figures, send 'em on to lorgstrf@hotmail.com

To: John Stichnoth who wrote (3996)	4/20/1999 4:49:00 PM
From: Rocket Scientist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

John Stichnoth, a few thoughts on interesting questions you raise: Regarding potential users, you left out a big market, which will be governments; I bet that several 100Ks of potential users are within various national, state, and local government bureaucracies and law enforcement organizations. Anyway, I hope that G* already knew what Iridium's learning: the initial market for this service is vertical organizations, Gov't and commercial. My ideal would be: get the phone production line going with these users, then lower the price and adjust the marketing strategy to attract small businesses and rural communities, then individual users. I like your point about a monthly access/user terminal charge as an attractive way to defray the system cost and allow cheaper $/minute. As to G* revenue potential, if it can sustain the 35-50 cent per minute wholesale rate, it should make 3-5B$/year when it's fully booked. Best regards, RS