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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (4336)	4/30/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: John Stichnoth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

The costs for the gateway operators is more difficult to estimate, I think one of the G* execs has stated that the gateways are on the order of a central office in scale, and can be placed to piggyback with existing CO operations, needing some incremental staffing but not a completely new staffing infrastructure. I'd be very surprised if direct operating costs were close to the depreciation and financing costs of the gateway. Those are somewhat under $2MM per year per gateway. That translates to 5MM minutes at 40 cents (retail markup). Or, 200MM minutes to cover 40 gateway costs at 40 cents. Or, less than 2% of system capacity.

To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (4336)	4/30/1999 12:31:00 PM
From: limtex	Respond to of 29987

RS - this is just the policy I was afraid. The GSM cell mobile operators around the Wrold like Vodaphone should be made to realize that their game is up. Either they start charging at the same rates that domestic US operators charge or G* will just by pass them and operate in their territories and put them out of business. The days of milking the public are over for their outrageuosly overpriced and progressively more unserviceable GSM junk. Mostly around the World the mobile operators were given their franchises or they were sweetheart deals for the local good old boys. Small young comanies never got a look in...weren't acceptable and all that. These gangsters are soaking the public around the World and have never been tested with real commercial competition. Locally it might look like there is competition here and there but it isn't really. Its abit like allowing another Internet book seller to go online to compete against AMZN in two years time. No I say G* come to the rescue of the poor and oppresed people of the World on your GReat White Steed and slay the existong evil mobile dragons with your low priced satelites. Regards, L