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Think it is pretty much done for the day. Probably will give back some of the big gains. I thought that all the good news would hold the price level up for a while but it appears it is taking back the gains as quickly as it gave them.
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I'm still hoping it will get back into the 3.70 range again for me to sell. I'm surprised it didn't go higher than it did...
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"Flight schedules over Edwards Air Force Base will be provided after Edward's Test Range approves Sanswire II for flight"
Wow... This is a lot closer to me than I thought... I am stationed at Edwards AFB. Maybe I can see this thing, that I have money riding on, actually fly. If I do, I will tell you guys if it crashes or not .
quote:Originally posted by <mlewis>: I'm showing GTE up .22 to 3.58 ???
Seems GTE closed down at 3.36 in after hours trading yesterday. The +.22 is measured against that price. Actual EOD close for GTE yesterday was 3.57 so in reality the price was only up .1 against yesterday's close.
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quote:Originally posted by <mlewis>: I'm showing GTE up .22 to 3.58 ???
Seems GTE closed down at 3.36 in after hours trading yesterday. The +.22 is measured against that price. Actual EOD close for GTE yesterday was 3.57 so in reality the price was only up .1 against yesterday's close.
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I think this article relates with future stratellite contracts in the US. I just see it as something of another green light for globetel.
----------------- WiMAX ForumTM Announces First WiMAX Forum CertifiedTM Products SAN JOSE, Calif. – January 19, 2006 – The WiMAX Forum, an industry-led, non-profit corporation formed to promote and certify compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products, today announced the first fixed wireless broadband network products to achieve the designation of WiMAX Forum Certified. At the WCA Technical and Business Symposium in San Jose, the WiMAX Forum revealed the first companies and products to complete certification and interoperability testing, including Aperto Networks’ PacketMAX 5000 base station, Redline Communications’ RedMAX AN-100U base station, SEQUANS Communications’ SQN2010 SoC base station solution, and Wavesat’s miniMAX customer premise equipment (CPE) solution. To date, the WiMAX Forum’s certification laboratory, Cetecom Spain, has confirmed 26 additional reservations from manufacturers for testing slots for both subscriber and base station equipment certification. In order to handle this additional capacity, Cetecom already has set up multiple test lines for testing and certification for these products – a process that will continue over the next two months. The first round of WiMAX Forum Certified products were developed according to the WiMAX Forumdefined certification profile for 3.5 GHz systems, which is based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 and ETSI HiperMAN standards. Each hardware system was required to pass stringent and extensive test procedures, consisting of protocol conformance, radio conformance and interoperability testing in order to attain the WiMAX Forum Certification seal. “The achievement of Certification is a result of the successful collaboration of our Certification Working Group, ETSI, Cetecom Spain and WiMAX system suppliers,” said Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum. “Through an expanded and rigorous conformance and interoperability testing in our certification program, we believe there are more robust fixed WiMAX systems coming to market than what was originally expected.” “The first availability of fixed WiMAX equipment demonstrates the commitment of the Forum, the vendors and the providers to reaching their critical milestones,” said Lindsay Schroth, senior analyst of broadband access technologies at the Yankee Group. “This is a crucial step in the process of developing and certifying both fixed and mobile WiMAX networks. We expect this announcement to impact the deployment time tables of large and small service providers around the world that will use fixed WiMAX networks as a way to deliver true broadband services to consumers and business users.” In July 2005, WiMAX Forum opened its first certification lab, operated by Cetecom, and began receiving WiMAX equipment and started the test procedure validation process. While validation was underway, the WiMAX Forum hosted two PlugFests – informal interoperability events conducted between multiple vendors. Both PlugFests tested vendor products using common certification profiles approved by the WiMAX Forum in the 3.5 GHz frequency band.
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quote:Originally posted by ehya the fisherman: I think this article relates with future stratellite contracts in the US. I just see it as something of another green light for globetel.
----------------- WiMAX ForumTM Announces First WiMAX Forum CertifiedTM Products SAN JOSE, Calif. – January 19, 2006 – ......
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Looking at AH numbers, currently sitting at $3.40 0n 31K volume, could be an excellent opportunity for a swing pickup tomorrow. With GTE PR's looming by EOM, the dip may be brief IMO. GLTA!!
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The next FOOL article will have a 10 year old Huff buying into a company called NuMarbles and making high altitude paper plains that will never get off the ground... Is this a coincidence???
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The fool article should instill fear in folks. I agree with ya Pagan. If you're holding today, it may be wise to sell today and pick up more shares for cheaper either tomorrow or later this week IMO. If I was still holding shares though, I may want to wait until the market opens though before acting on any decision.
Keep an eye out for any GTE PR that may try to counter the Fool article as well.
Definitely bargain prices on the shares thanks to the fools. Honestly, just look at the work they put into that article, would someone really invest all that time into something that holds no value for them, when the focus of their world is most definitely time=money?
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quote:Originally posted by stockvaper: I think GTE will put out a rebuttal. They always have in the past, why not now?
I don't think the "Fool" article requires a rebuttal. The true rebuttal will be a PR announcing the first $150MM has been banked. Or that the Stratellite is approved for Edwards flight test. Or announcements of other contracts. Action speaks louder than words IMO and all of the afforementioned items are due for release. The $150MM installment is due by EOM. Stratellite announcement due in early Feb. The "Fool" article only had a $.20 impact on SP. The "Fool" has just afforded everyone a nice swing pick-up position. Thanks again SJ! GLTA
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Interesting article from MSNBC (Tech-Science/Innovation). Competition? ____________________________________________ Better cell phone service through ... balloons? 'I know it sounds crazy,' says former N.D. governor, 'but it works'
Updated: 6:20 p.m. ET Jan. 23, 2006 BISMARCK, N.D. - Why put up more than 1,000 towers to spread cell phone service across North Dakota when a few balloons would do it?
So says former North Dakota Gov. Ed Schafer, one of the backers of a plan to attach wireless repeaters to weather balloons high above the state to fill gaps in cellular coverage.
"I know it sounds crazy," Schafer said. "But it works in the lab."
Extend America, a North Dakota wireless telecommunications company, and Chandler, Ariz.-based Space Data Corp. are developing the balloon-borne cellular technology, believed to be the first of its kind.
A trial balloon will be launched next month in North Dakota to test the theory, said Schafer, the chief executive officer of Bismarck-based Extend America. Schafer left office in 2000 after eight years as governor.
If successful, the balloons could be drifting across the stratosphere above North Dakota this summer, providing cellular coverage around the state.
Schafer said the cost of the balloons is a fraction of the cost to build cellular towers in remote areas.
Jerry Knoblach, the CEO of Space Data, said although the balloon technology called SkySite is new to cellular, "the platform is very well proven."
His company has launched thousands of the free-floating balloons in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico to track data for oil company vehicles, wells and pipelines over the past year, he said. And Knoblach is certain the balloons will work for cellular service in North Dakota — even in cold or stormy weather. He said balloons were launched even during Hurricane Katrina.
"It's just like a weather balloon at the airport," Schafer said. "There's enough hydrogen in them to rise very rapidly."
Up to 20 miles above the earth, stratospheric winds would push the latex weather balloons across the state at about 30 mph. Each balloon would deliver voice and data service to an area hundreds of miles in diameter, Schafer said.
"Nine balloons would always be in the air, with some going up, some going down, and some in the middle," Schafer said.
Once the balloons transit the state's stratosphere, the electronic gear would be jettisoned remotely and fall to the earth with a parachute.
The electronic equipment, about the size of a toaster, would be recovered through the use of a global positioning satellite device.
"We'd pay some guy a bounty, put in a new battery pack and send it off again," Knoblach said.
Schafer said a repeater could be used indefinitely "unless it lands in a lake or gets run over by a truck."
Cheaper than building cell towers The state of North Dakota is an "interested observer" in the technology, said Jerry Fossum, the telecommunications director for the state Information Technology Department.
"It's interesting technology that, at first blush, sounds really crazy," Fossum said. "It's certainly a possible solution to some of our demographic problems of a lot of space and not a lot of people. I hope it works."
Knoblach said the hydrogen-filled balloons cost about $55 each. The balloons swell from six feet in diameter to 30 feet after they gain altitude. After the electronic equipment is released, the balloons expand with the drop in air pressure until they burst.
Winds at high altitudes are consistent, blowing west to east in the winter, and east to west in the summer, Knoblach said. The balloons would travel above the jet stream, and he said they would not be bothered by storms.
Schafer said it costs about $250,000 to build one cellular tower in North Dakota, and many remote areas don't have enough customers to pay for it.
"To cover every square mile of North Dakota, it would take 1,100 cell towers," Schafer said. "We can do the whole state with three balloons — and it won't have problems with that line-of-sight stuff," he said, referring to hills that can block signals from towers.
Schafer thinks the entire idea is a "pretty cool" and affordable option for remote areas that might not otherwise have cellular coverage.
The system is not designed to compete with existing tower-based networks. Knoblach said the service would be sold wholesale to existing telecommunications companies. He and Schafer said users likely would see a minimal charge, if any.
Knoblach said the military is eyeing the system for use in Iraq. He said Space Data wants to establish similar systems across the United States by 2008. The startup company has been doing it for 15 months, and the North Dakota balloons would "the next level," he said.
"The nice thing is that we don't have to weld a bunch of steel together to build a tower," Schafer said. "We just let these babies go."
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