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LOL. I got my panties all bunched up over here reading all this stuff that I forgot to post the darn ticker. LOL GO GTEL!!!!!!!!!
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Here is an article that is from www.pennycents.com it is a week old but shows there is alot of hype coming out lately!!! 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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long here too, I am thinking it is MM's at play here. bouncing back and forth. Also the whole ENRON thing on the news today. I am just going to stick it through and see what it does. Next week will be the test.
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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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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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Press release below!!!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 will be in attendance!!! GO GTEL!!! 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Sanswire Networks, Atlanta Michael K. Molen, 770-409-9875 mmolen@sanswire.com
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GTEL-- GlobeTel Communications Corp. (OTCBB:GTEL) announced today the beginning of its Corporate Image Program. This will consist of the reconstruction of its website, the release of sector reports, marketing news reports concerning GTEL's products and services, and shareholder updates and brochures. GlobeTel engaged Ecisive, (http://www.ecisive.com) to provide the redesign of GlobeTel's website plus the back office assistance in integrating GlobeTel's back office operations to the public site. The same look and feel and functionality will be presented throughout the site, providing easy to use and to understand formats to customers and visitors of the site. Ecisive is a well established marketing and design firm with major Fortune 500 corporate customers. The new site is scheduled for launch at the end of August 2004. The product reports and marketing reports will be released over the remaining of the 2004 calendar year. The goal is to present a complete picture of the products and services and corporate goals of GlobeTel. The first report will be released in the month of August. Timothy Huff, CEO of GlobeTel stated, "We have worked very hard over the past two years restructuring the Company, developing new and unique products and bringing the staff together on a Global basis to manage the growth. Over the next five months, we plan to clearly give our shareholders and the public the full picture of our goals and present them in a clear and uniformed way. The reports will be on the five market sectors of GlobeTel: carrier traffic, IP adapters, stored value programs, content delivery and last mile solutions. We will show how we plan to deliver a door-to-door product suite which is very revolutionary and we believe it will not only change the scope of telecommunications, but the world."
About GlobeTel Communications Corp.
GlobeTel is an IP solutions/applications based company. Although international carrier termination business is the base and the beginning of the Company's services, GlobeTel's goal is to provide strategic advantages to commodity telecommunications based products. This will be accomplished by taking such products as voice termination, prepaid calling cards, store valued debit cards and IP adapters and giving these products and services unique market advantages through the deployment of unique software and the deployment of IP platforms, including Sanswire's Stratellites. In each of these cases, GlobeTel has developed unique approaches that give the Company market advantages worldwide. 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 INFORMATION: For GlobeTel Communications Corp., Miami Big Apple Consulting USA, Inc. Matt Maguire, 407/884-0444 or 1-866 THE APPLE
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