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charles
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posted June 15, 2004 23:28           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Anyone hear anything about gtel. Seems like they have alot of good products coming out. Is this a good stock for the long haul?

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sexy jingle
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posted June 16, 2004 12:23           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
they're having a descent day. ohhhh!!! what a day

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Breezer
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posted June 16, 2004 12:26     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Good PR http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040616/165379_1.html

and check out link to
http://www.stratellite.net/#

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investigating investor
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posted June 16, 2004 13:51     Click Here to See the Profile for investigating investor     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks for the tip. I will have to start tracking this one.

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communications geek
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posted June 17, 2004 11:56           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This was described as a sleeper on 26 May by Larry Oakley of www.****************.com Somebody tell it to wake up . http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040526/265350_1.html

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Breezer
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posted June 17, 2004 15:23     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by communications geek:
This was described as a sleeper on 26 May by Larry Oakley of www.****************.com Somebody tell it to wake up . http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040526/265350_1.html


Trying to pick up this sleeper now. Hope I can get some at a good price (below .11?)

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gtel
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posted June 17, 2004 22:52           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Lets see what tommorrow brings. I think that it will not really go up till July but till then I am going to have to see if I can get some more shares. If it goes low enough I might have to get more shares.

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Breezer
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posted June 18, 2004 08:50     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That's my plan too!

We are talking a paradigm shift with GTEL - that is huge.

Good luck to you.

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investigating investor
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posted June 18, 2004 16:18     Click Here to See the Profile for investigating investor     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Tried to buy some at .106 but unfortunately it was onley a partial fill will try again Monday to complete my order!!!!

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investigating investor
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posted June 21, 2004 10:52     Click Here to See the Profile for investigating investor     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, I am not sure I am going to get this under .11 . I have tried and I might have to get it just at market value. Have a feeling it will be at .16 by next monday, at least i hope so

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Breezer
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posted June 21, 2004 13:15     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by investigating investor:
Well, I am not sure I am going to get this under .11 . I have tried and I might have to get it just at market value. Have a feeling it will be at .16 by next monday, at least i hope so

Why by next Monday? What is up with it? I know on July 12 they have the test. Is there a PR due before then?

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Breezer
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posted June 21, 2004 13:58     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Picked up some more at .108 (couldn't get it at .107).

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investigating investor
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posted June 22, 2004 02:54     Click Here to See the Profile for investigating investor     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just hoping haven't heard any more news. I just picked me up some more to at .108 also. I just think the market is going to turn around. But that is just my gut feeling. Markets been bad for awhile and it is due for an uplift!!!!

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Breezer
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posted June 23, 2004 23:49     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by investigating investor:
Just hoping haven't heard any more news. I just picked me up some more to at .108 also. I just think the market is going to turn around. But that is just my gut feeling. Markets been bad for awhile and it is due for an uplift!!!!


Here's today's PRGlobeTel Communications Corp. is ``Full Throttle and All Systems Go'' as Featured on CEOcast.com
Wednesday June 23, 12:52 pm ET


MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 2004--GlobeTel Communications Corp. (OTCBB:GTEL - News) is pleased to announce that GTEL CEO Timothy Huff, and Sanswire CEO Michael Molen, have been featured on CEOcast.com.
As part of Mr. Huff's "Last Mile Solution," the mission was to build a national wireless broadband network in the United States. A type of high altitude airship, called a stratellite, which is launched into the stratosphere, will act as a transmission platform for all different kinds of wireless technologies. In the interview, Mr. Huff and Mr. Molen discuss the specifics of the stratellite purpose, applications, and mission.

Test launches are scheduled to begin in July, with the first launch slated for 2005. Mr. Molen is very optimistic about the future. When asked about concerns of competitors and barriers, Mr. Molen states, "I think we are far ahead of anyone else that's attempting to do this. There is tremendous interest all over the world in this product. We are full throttle and all systems go toward the first launch."

To listen to the interview in its entirety, please visit http://www.ceocast.com.


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Breezer
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posted June 24, 2004 09:36     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
GTEL going up!

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Saif Al3z
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posted June 24, 2004 15:09     Click Here to See the Profile for Saif Al3z     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
this is very good stock if there high Tech work in terms of communication it will hit the sky and price of stock will be at the orbit

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Breezer
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posted June 28, 2004 13:03     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I am just waiting for this one to go way up in July. This is going to be the stock of the summer!

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Breezer
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posted June 30, 2004 00:12     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Seems weird - seemed hard to buy shares of GTEL. I put in at .104 buy today for 15000 shares and even with the price staying around .104 and even going to .103 - I only got 1000 or my 15000 shares filled. Interesting.

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Hopeful Trader
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posted June 30, 2004 11:05     Click Here to See the Profile for Hopeful Trader     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Whats it mean Breezer when you cant get filled like that? I have another stock doing the same thing. Thanks.

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gtel
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posted June 30, 2004 12:08           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Maybe that is a sign that it is going to go up, the float might be higher than the current price, who knows!!! All I know is I am waiting for mid July to see what happens!!!

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Breezer
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posted June 30, 2004 15:26     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Hopeful Trader:
Whats it mean Breezer when you cant get filled like that? I have another stock doing the same thing. Thanks.

Not sure what it means since I still feel like a newbie to all of this.

However, I see it as a good sign. Shares are not being released easily.

I am waiting for Christmas in JULY!

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gtel
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posted July 01, 2004 10:39           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
More PR out today!!! This is from www.pennycents.com. Sounds like I made a good choice picking this one. Just waiting for it to take off!!!

Will New Technology Make or Break the Telecom Industry?
by Misty Cryer

July 2004

As with the emergence of any new technology, the introduction of IP voice data can be either exciting or terrifying, depending on which side of the issue affects you.

IP voice data, also called VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) is a new technology that is used to transmit voice conversations via the Internet.

Although IP voice data is new and may have some bugs to be worked out, there are a number of benefits to users of this technology making it highly desirable.

Among the benefits to consumers are reduced communication costs and improved speed of transmitting a high volume f telecommunication traffic resulting in improved line availability. Additionally, VoIP networks integrate voice and data communications into a single package which gives consumers more options with reduced costs.

The greatest advantage I see, from a consumer perspective, is competition among the seemingly monopolized industry of telecommunications. This type of competition is sure to improve prices and service across the industry as a whole.

The efficiency of VoIP technology, when compared to traditional circuit-switched phone systems, is much better and more cost effective for providers of telecommunication services; therefore, they can provide higher-quality service with more options, at lower rates. Traditional telephone technology results in an entire line being tied-up for a conversation. With VoIP technology, several conversations can take place simultaneously on one line without interference.

GlobeTel Communications Corporation (GTEL.OB) and IPVoice™ Communications Incorporated (IPVO.OB) are two players in the newly emerging IP Voice Data market.

GlobeTel is a Delaware corporation established in 2002, previously a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Diversified Group, Inc. GlobeTel has recognized a problem associated with the delivery of IP voice technology which can present message delays due to the need for buffering. They have devised solutions to the problem which employ the use of virtual networks in the countries they provide service in.

GlobeTel’s proprietary software package enables them to provide enhanced services such as call waiting, call forwarding, conference calling, voice mail, voice-to-e-mail, fax service and calling card services.

IP Voice Communications also entered the scene in 2002, after spending four years in the research and development phase. Current revenues are a result of software licensing and integration as well as a new offering of converged communications service.

IP Voice Communications has concentrated on building a market presence in the United States, but business development efforts are underway in China, Eastern Europe and Latin America with expectations that international sales will accelerate the company’s growth and expansion.

IP Voice Communications, still considered a start-up business, reported revenues of $2.3M for the fiscal year ending December 2003. IP Voice Communications envisions entry into the Healthcare and Homeland Security markets in 2004, adding diversity to their product offerings.

GlobeTel reported annual revenues of slightly over $11M. According to their annual report, their two main customers were the source of 93% of their revenues.

Being new companies, both IP Voice Communications and GlobeTel Communications may appear to be “if-y” investments; however, they are both staged for growth and expansion in a new technology-based industry that is sure to evolve rapidly. As for the traditional telecommunication providers – my guess is they may be faced with the choice of stepping up to the challenge of IP voice data, or stepping aside.


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gtel
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posted July 01, 2004 12:00           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I just clicked on sanswire's new web site. I have been waiting forever for this to get updated and it looks like they did one heck of a job. Only 11 more days till GTEL tests that new stratellite. www.sanswire.com

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Breezer
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posted July 01, 2004 14:31     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by gtel:
I just clicked on sanswire's new web site. I have been waiting forever for this to get updated and it looks like they did one heck of a job. Only 11 more days till GTEL tests that new stratellite. www.sanswire.com


thanks for the update MR. gtel!
I doubled up today - grabbed some at .107.

I am ready!

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gtel
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posted July 01, 2004 15:13           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

I doubled up too!!! But unfortunately I didn't get it that cheap, I jumped the gun and got it at .111, still fluctuating around there. I am not worried. I am in this for the long haul. I have been dropping alot of my penny stocks that have been crappy lately and putting it all in gtel. All the other penny stocks don't really seem like they are the next wave of the future like gtel. Hopefully I am right, I have a good feeling. I will try and keep everyone posted with new updates as they come in.

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Breezer
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posted July 01, 2004 15:22     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by gtel:

I doubled up too!!! But unfortunately I didn't get it that cheap, I jumped the gun and got it at .111, still fluctuating around there. I am not worried. I am in this for the long haul. I have been dropping alot of my penny stocks that have been crappy lately and putting it all in gtel. All the other penny stocks don't really seem like they are the next wave of the future like gtel. Hopefully I am right, I have a good feeling. I will try and keep everyone posted with new updates as they come in.

Yep - please keep us posted KING GTEL!
yes - I equate GTEL to an ONEV - both long term holds.
GTEL is a paridigm shift though!
I love saying that! Paridigm shift!

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gtel
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posted July 01, 2004 17:17           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Breezer, I got us the mascot for gtel here at www.rallymonkey.com/oldvideo.php He says he will cheer for us LOL!!!

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gtel
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posted July 01, 2004 23:08           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here is some interesting reading that I found while searching the net. I got these links from another message board about GTEL. It doesn't name GTEL, but talks about the concepts that they are implementing!!!
http://www.intercomms.net/AUG03/content/struzak1.php
http://www.newgadgets.freeserve.co.uk/Invest.htm


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gtel
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posted July 01, 2004 23:20           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just doing some research and wondering if this stuff applies???
http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0%2C1413%2C125~11079~2241457%2C00.html

Go July 12th!!!

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gtel
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posted July 01, 2004 23:24           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just showing that there is interest in what GTEL is doing and will prove on the 12th!!!
I know alot of articles to read, but it shows that this is not a crazy idea but one being taken seriously!!!
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBRADFGZVD.html


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Breezer
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posted July 02, 2004 00:07     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by gtel:

Breezer, I got us the mascot for gtel here at www.rallymonkey.com/oldvideo.php He says he will cheer for us LOL!!!

TOO Funny! I love it!

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glassman
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posted July 02, 2004 13:48     Click Here to See the Profile for glassman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

gotta love the monkey.....LOL

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gtel
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posted July 03, 2004 16:13           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was visiting the gtel web site and it looks like they added new stuff to the magic phone site. This looks promising!!! I am hoping this gets out and this company takes off!!! I am just excited cause it looks like thier products are coming out, the other pink sheet stocks I own, don't seem to be as dedicated to getting new products out there like gtel!!!
http://magicphone.globetel.net/

other websites for gtel and sanswire(updated thier site too) are: http://www.globetel.net/default.htm http://www.sanswire.com/

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Breezer
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posted July 05, 2004 22:58     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by gtel:
I was visiting the gtel web site and it looks like they added new stuff to the magic phone site. This looks promising!!! I am hoping this gets out and this company takes off!!! I am just excited cause it looks like thier products are coming out, the other pink sheet stocks I own, don't seem to be as dedicated to getting new products out there like gtel!!!
http://magicphone.globetel.net/

other websites for gtel and sanswire(updated thier site too) are: http://www.globetel.net/default.htm http://www.sanswire.com/


Hey there MR. GTEL!
Is the magic phone a VOIP? I am an agent for IGP which is a VOIP with great rates (but about $5 more than GTEL). THE clarity is unreal - so clear. Love to know more about what their magic phone does.
I think GTEL is a KEEPER!

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gtel
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posted July 06, 2004 09:56           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yes it is!!! For a very cheap rate you can make phone calls to the U.S or Canada. This also includes great international rates. Now consider this. I happen to be in the military, so I call home alot. If I have a magic phone and my mom has a magic phone I could call her from anywhere in the world for free (no minutes to watch). You know how important it is for us in the military. Sure if I am in the desert or jungles, I won't have convenient access to the internet or phone. But I deploy every 10 months, and stay on deployment for 6 months. If I go to a normal deployment site, I have internet and phone access in my room. I know that phone rates are alot cheaper than when I first came in ( I remember some of my buddies had $1000 phone bills a month). Now it has gotten cheaper, but a good amount of money that they earn is spent on phone bills. When you deploy alot like me, it is the only way you can communicate to your wife or loved ones. Imagine how much moral we would have with this magic phone. I know next time I deploy I will get this magic phone. Unless I go to the desert then I am buying a bullet proof vest. LOL. I mean I would love to call home, but getting shot hurts. LOL. My cell phone is not good overseas. That would be one helluva roaming charge. LOL. This is the same concept that I use with my cell phone, except. I bought my cell phone for that purpose, which works except for these cons.
1. I have to have a contract, which is expensive to get out of.
2. My cell phone cuts out at important times during my conversations.
3. My dad is hard of hearing and when using my cell phone he can barely hear.
4. My cell phone battery has only a limited charge.
5. I am scared to death by the fact that if I call and go over my minutes, I get a very expensive phone bill.
6. cell phone is very important to me in an emergency, but for everyday use it is not practical.
7. I can't even order a pizza from domino's from my cell phone (they have caller i.d and will not deliver if I use my cell phone. LOL. B-sturds, I have went hungry cause of this. This forced me to get a land line, cause my cooking sucks and I depend deeply on delivered pizzas.

I could go on and on about the benefits from the magic phone. Here is the website for those interested in ordering or just curious on what we are investing in. I believe that when the strattelite is in place it will improve on this magic phone service even more. Right now it is a good deal, but with the strattelite in place, there is just no comparison. The magic phone is still getting improved on as we speak!!! Go ahead and do some research, but I think it is going to revolutionize the way we communicate, back home. They have been updating thier system as we speak so keep checking thier website along with the above websites to keep on track with them. I have been a shareowner with gtel for quite some time and I continue to buy shares, cause I have faith in what they are doing!!! http://magicphone.globetel.net/

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charles
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posted July 06, 2004 17:07           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Can't complain the trend continues to be green. Even though today wasn't very green, it was still green. Just because you only make a nickle, it is better than the rest of the pinks that are losing a dollar! Now don't take that as we went up a nickle. All I know is the test is less than a week and we have been doing good lately. Shares have been hard to get. I know I tried to buy some and was reduced to only a partial fill if any at all. This seems like a good sign to me, except I didn't get all my shares.

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gtel
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posted July 06, 2004 17:37           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I do not mind a slow and easy climb. Shows that the stock is less volatile and is more steady. Sign of a good stock that is on the rise.

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gtel
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posted July 08, 2004 00:35           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
There was an article written today about the stratellite. They were posted at two different places (ZDNET and CNET). go ahead and check them out. The only thing is they said two things that caught my eye. One is that they were subject to the weather. They are but at that altitude the winds are not that bad and that they are lower than altitude flying balloons. they are actually lower than satellites balloons. (sanswire site has clarifications and specs). http://news.com.com/Broadband+by+airship%3F/2100-1034_3-5260257.html?tag=nefd.top http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5260257.html
There is also alot of talk about the news report that was on tonight on CBS World News (this wasn't about GTEL but showed the concept and ways that we could benefit, by the technology of the stratelite) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/07/eveningnews/main628088.shtml
Because of these news and the test coming up next week, we might see a very good movement on this stock. Keep your fingers crossed!!!! All I know is that the article, news clip and the test are generating alot of interest.

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gtel
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posted July 08, 2004 00:37           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
http://news.com.com/Broadband+by+airship%3F/2100-1034_3-5260257.html?tag=nefd.top
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5260257.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/07/eveningnews/main628088.shtml

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posted July 08, 2004 08:47     Click Here to See the Profile for investigating investor     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here is another article from Computer World that is dealing with the stratellite! http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;463142921;fp;16;fpid;0

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Breezer
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posted July 08, 2004 09:34     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Why do you think it is going so low today?

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investigating investor
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posted July 08, 2004 11:14     Click Here to See the Profile for investigating investor     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I think it is a play by the MM's the same shares seem to be going back and forth. made me nervous too, but I am going to stick it through. Also they had that whole ENRON thing on the news today. That might have drove down the market

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gtel
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posted July 08, 2004 12:13           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
not to worry it is starting to pick up again

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Breezer
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posted July 08, 2004 13:25     Click Here to See the Profile for Breezer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well I am not selling - that is for sure.

Just wondering if I should pick up some more shares!

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gtel
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posted July 08, 2004 16:12           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Its all up to you. I know I am going to try and get some more. I was kinda hoping some of my other stocks would do goo enough to sell them off. That way I would have more cash to buy in. Guess not LOL. I am going to have to wire in some money tomorrow to my ameritrade account.

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posted July 08, 2004 21:59     Click Here to See the Profile for investigating investor     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Another article about that stratellite!!!
Patience is the key on GTEL. This is for the long haul, not a short time pop and drop, like some of those in recent days.
Article can be found at
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/jul04/0704neye.html

Article Blitz on Stratellites: #1

(article included latest pic of Stratellite)


An Eye in the Sky

By Willie D. Jones

An Atlanta company is testing a balloon-borne transmitter for broadband and cellular in its hometown, but to get the business off the ground, aviation regulators must be appeased

8 July 2004—This month, a 3000-meter-high antenna will rise over Atlanta, but area residents might not notice. The antenna won’t be a metal rod at the end of a hulking tower, but a solar-powered, helium-and-nitrogen–filled airship that will receive signals from nearby ground stations and rebroadcast them over the Atlanta metropolitan area.

The test transmission of voice, data, and video in many standard forms will be part of a demonstration planned by a local company, Sanswire Networks LLC, to show that high-altitude platforms— or HAPs as they are known in the telecommunications world— can work as mid-air base stations for wireless communications.

Sanswire's stratellite, which closely resembles a whale out of water, has been flattened in order to make more of its surface area upward facing. This has significantly increased the area covered by solar arrays [shown as brown and green grid] that provide power for propulsion and for running the onboard communications payload. The Atlanta demo is a proof-of-concept designed to satisfy certain technical and regulatory concerns. It’s a warm-up for what will be an even more important test of an actual commercial system. In the full-scale version, a larger airship, already designed, will float into the stratosphere and hold its position at 20 000 meters. At that altitude, a single ship’s coverage area will be about 337 000 square kilometers , an area roughly the size of Germany. Thirteen airships working together could reach all points in the continental United States.

The Sanswire projects are representative of work being done on high-altitude communications platforms by companies and consortia around the globe. The reason using balloons or solar-powered drones for communications seems so attractive to so many experts is that these platforms combine the best features of satellite and terrestrial systems. They should be considerably cheaper than satellites to launch, retrievable so that updated equipment can be installed, and remotely controlled for placement where they would be most effective. And, in contrast to ground-based antennas, the high-altitude platforms will have a direct line-of-sight to all receivers, covering a much greater area than an antenna tower could hope to reach.

Sanswire is confident that the technology to be used for this month’s test also will work fine in the bigger commercial system. Perhaps the most challenging hurdle was the design of the balloon itself, which had to be changed so that one of two Kevlar envelopes containing the airship’s lighter-than-air gases would accommodate enough solar cells on its surface to provide the requisite power. “We’ve solved the energy problem,” Sanswire CEO Michael K. Molen boasted in a conversation with IEEE Spectrum.“ In fact, he said, the solar panels on their “stratellites”—so-called because they act like satellites but perch in the stratosphere—capture enough energy to run for 10 days with no light.

Molen acknowledged that an earlier design didn’t draw enough energy from the sun’s rays during the day to power the propellers that maintain the airship’s position and run the onboard electronics after dark. But its latest design, which is reminiscent of a whale, yielded much more skyward-facing surface, 5400 square meters, and so, more energy [see illustration].

Based on its technical progress, Sanswire, which is a subsidiary of GlobeTel Communications Corp., Pembroke Pine, Fla., has been busy working out agreements with communications companies in Australia, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, and Russia. Molen told Spectrum that the Australian government is serious about its push to provide broadband access to its 20 million residents. The fact that Australians are spread over an area roughly the size of the United States makes landlines and even terrestrial wireless base stations impractical, and the government is highly motivated to take a chance on something unorthodox, he says.

By early September, Sanswire’s Australian subsidiary will start building the full-size airship designed to remain at 20 000 meters for 18 months at a time. It is intended to come down only when technological advances make the onboard equipment outmoded. Molen told Spectrum that Sanswire expects to launch the stratellite by the third quarter of 2005.

Such is the enthusiasm for high-altitude platforms that even setbacks and failures have not dampened its popularity. Sky Station International, the HAPs communications and surveillance company started by former U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig, ran out of funding before getting its plan off the ground, apparently the victim of an overly optimistic business plan. Perhaps the best-known effort, that of AeroVironment Inc., Monrovia, Calif., and its subsidiary, SkyTower Telecommunications, suffered a serious setback when its experimental solar-powered flying wing, Helios, crashed off the coast of Hawaii in June 2003. (Before it crashed, Helios made a record-setting 18-hour flight and cruised at 23 000 meters. )

With reverses of that kind looked upon as merely momentary, there has been no end to the rush of companies looking to get into the business. One of the more advanced and well-funded projects is SkyLINC Ltd., based in York, England. It has the backing of Capanina, a European Union project aimed at providing “broadband for all.” Its concept is to use a balloon stationed 1600 meters above a large city and tethered to a ground station by a cable containing a fiber-optic line. SkyLINC says that a constellation of 18 such stations would be enough to cover the United Kingdom.

Other firms around the world are trying to get airborne as well, including San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Italy’s space agency ASI, and Canada’s 21st Century Airships Inc.

Globally, the high-altitude concept got a big boost last year when certain regulatory hurdles, notably bandwidth allocation, were settled for over 50 countries. Resolutions were adopted at the 2003 World Radiocommunications Conference in Geneva that gave countries in the Americas the right to assign frequencies in two nonadjacent bands between 28 and 31 gigahertz for this purpose, with African, Asian, and European nations getting permission to use these frequencies on a case by case basis. [See “Radio Days: World Radio Communication Conference Concludes Work in Geneva,” by Giselle Weiss:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/jul03/wrc.html.

As for the United States, Sanswire’s test this month will be a significant stage in an ongoing project aimed at convincing the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which oversees travel across the nation’s airspace, that its kind of system is ready for prime time. The FAA will have to be satisfied that an onboard Global Positioning System meant to keep the aircraft in a tightly defined space is as effective as advertised.

Sanswire is also looking to prove the effectiveness of transponders that will continually report the lighter-than-air vehicles’ position to air traffic controllers. Though the aircraft would come to rest at altitudes well above the 12 000-meter ceiling at which the U.S. air traffic control system ends, the vehicles still have to get approval for ascent and descent.

Commercial introduction of communications services using high-altitude platforms will not take off in the United States until the current rules—mandating a long lead time before an individual unmanned flight is approved—are changed. After all, one of the selling points of platform-based communications is the ability of a plane or airship to be moved into place within a few hours’ notice to provide extra bandwidth for such big events as the Olympic Games or the Super Bowl. Or an airship could act as a temporary replacement for infrastructure knocked out of service by a calamity, such as the collapse of New York City’s World Trade Center.

A faster “on-ramp to the skies” for unmanned aircraft, including the kinds that could be employed in communications systems, is the goal of the Access5 initiative. The project is headed by NASA, consists of the U.S. Department of Defense and an aerospace industry group including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and AeroVironment as partners, and involves the FAA in an advisory role. Access5 is trying to establish a protocol permitting unmanned aircraft to simply take off from designated airports upon the filing of a flight plan with the FAA.

By 2009, the group hopes that file-and-fly operation will be firmly established. So far, NASA has allocated about US $100 million of the $360 million analysts say it will cost to carry out the systems development and testing that will satisfy the FAA. Technologies being worked on by the group include onboard collision-avoidance systems that, in tests conducted in April 2003, detected the presence of aircraft it deemed likely to cross into its safe zone while they were as far as 10 km away.


PHOTO SOURCE:SANSWIRE NETWORKS LLC

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Article Blitz on Stratellites: #2

Airship to provide blanket wireless services

Posted Jul 8, 2004, 9:30 AM ET by Simon Spagnoletti
Related entries: Misc. Gadgets, Wireless

SansWire Networks (such a clever name eh?) is demonstrating its “Stratellite” technolgy later on this week. Bad names aside, the concept is interesting and the mock-up looks like a whale, which bodes well for business (but gets serious nerd points with the Final Fantasy crowd). They plan on using “airships” (not balloons or blimps, oh no!) 13 miles up as wireless transmission platforms. It’s pretty much the same principle as communications satellites, with many of the same line-of-sight benefits only lower, cheaper, and easier to maintain. Each airship will use GPS to maintain a fixed position and be able to cover 300,000 square miles with wireless broadband, cellular, 3G/4G mobile, MMDS, paging, fixed wireless telephony, and HDTV goodness. Perhaps some carriers (we’re not naming any names) should consider getting a couple for New York until they sort themselves out this summer.

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I know it has been hairy the last 2 days but PATIENCE is the key to the penny trade. I hope that we still have our longs here. As promised in the last news release our demonstration is going on schedule. It is just too bad that they put the times for the schedule after the closing bell. Unless of course you used this too accumulate. Either way good luck guys, keep your fingers crossed. Also in this PR it mentions, survellance. Alot of press lately about the government using these types of things for survellance. They mention polititians and media will be in attendance!!!

Sanswire Networks Announces Schedule for Live Demonstration
Friday July 9, 4:06 pm ET


ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 2004--Sanswire Networks, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globetel Communications Corp. (OTCBB:GTEL - News) today announced the schedule for its demonstration of the wireless transmission capabilities of its Stratellites.
The live demonstration will be held at the Company's Atlanta headquarters on July 13 and 14, 2004. The July 13 demonstration will be a private demonstration for foreign visitors and politicians. The July 14 demonstration will be open to all registered visitors and media and will begin at 10:00 am. There will be a technical briefing following the demonstration.

The Company plans to demonstrate how it will use Stratellites as high-altitude wireless transmission platforms. The demonstration will consist of a number of wireless tests using various IP products and services over different frequencies, all from a fixed position in the sky. Sanswire will hold the platform in one stationary position using GPS technology. A series of antennas will be mounted to the platform that will receive a wireless signal from an earth station and retransmit the live signal to a designated area on the ground, allowing the Company to demonstrate the voice, video, and data capabilities of the high-altitude wireless platform. Attendees will be able to make an international phone call, surf the Internet, and watch live television programming. The Company will also be demonstrating the surveillance capabilities of the Stratellite.

Subsequent to the communications demonstration, the Company will set a date for the next round of testing that will involve launching a Stratellite into the stratosphere and holding it in position at 65,000 feet.

"The interest we have received from all over the world has been overwhelming," said Michael Molen, CEO of Sanswire Networks. "We believe that this is the most exciting communications project of our generation."

A Stratellite is similar to a satellite, but is stationed in the stratosphere rather than in orbit. At an altitude of only 13 miles, each Stratellite will have clear line-of-site communications capability to an entire major metropolitan area as well as being able to provide coverage across major rural areas. Several Stratellites linked together could cover many hundreds of thousands of square miles. The Stratellite will allow subscribers to easily communicate in "both directions" using readily available wireless devices. In addition to voice and data, proposed telecommunications uses include cellular, 3G/4G mobile, MMDS, paging, fixed wireless telephony, HDTV, real-time surveillance and others. To learn more about the Stratellites, visit Sanswire Network's website at http://www.sanswire.com.

To register to attend the July 14, 2004 demonstration, contact Jairo Rivera at jrivera@sanswire.com.

Safe Harbor Statements

Certain statements in this release constitute forward-looking statements or statements which may be deemed or construed to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Placement Act of 1995. The words "forecast", "project", "intend", "expect", "should", "would", and similar expressions and all statements, which are not historical facts, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause the Company's actual results, performance (finance or operating) or achievements to differ from future results, performance (financing and operating) or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The above are more fully discussed in the Company's SEC filings.

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Contact:
Sanswire Networks, Atlanta
Michael K. Molen, 770-409-9875
mmolen@sanswire.com

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Source: Globetel Communications Corp.

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That's a good news release, lets see what it brings Monday. It also said the media will be on the 14th. Should see alot of news again at end of next week or beginning of the week after.
I haven't heard GTEL say anything about survellance before. I know all of us speculated that we could, but this is a first. Politiicians + Survellance(Broadband communications in the field)/ Stratellite- cost of solar energy (cause it's free = very happy investors who took advantage of the low prices that we have seen!!!! I am not a mathematical genious, but even I can do the math on this one. GOOOO GTEL!!!!

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http://www.corante.com/mobilemesh/archives/004831.html

Evidence this is getting more attention than we thought.

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