Globalstar - reports are that Globalstar
performs outdoes Iridium and also offers
a 'data' service (including Internet access).

RF Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell McMahon" <apptech@PARADISE.NET.NZ>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [OT]: US telephone prefix locator


> > It would be nice. It's great to be able to take calls in the
> > interior of China (near Tibet and Burma) on the same cell phone that
> > works in Toronto and Phoenix (better coverage than in Rural Arizona,
> > actually!).
>
> Available now.
> Dysprosium* network - as long as you are happy to make calls outside :-)
> (Also Inmarsat if you have really large muscles)
>
>
>         RM
>
> (* the owners think it's still Iridium but they obviously don't know their
> atomic numbers).
>

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