"Speak softly and carry a BIG Stick" our former President Teddy Roosevelt said as an approach to Foreign Policy.
GTE has been screaming loudly about our technology and how cell towers will become a thing of the past. Check out what Dumas said in his letter to us Shareholders:
Sanswire— The Stratellite. The icing on the cake of the GlobeTel strategy (and admittedly, the butt of some unfounded jokes from the tabloid financial press) is our near-space digital platform, called the Stratelliteä. This rigid airship (not a blimp, not a balloon as the pundits remind us), when it becomes operational later this year, will produce what we believe will be the single greatest revolution in communications technology in the history of the world. Sure sounds like an outlandish statement, doesn’t it? And, I admit it is hard to make such a statement in an annual report to the Shareholders of a public company. But, if the regulators will allow me to get away with saying it, I have to say it, because I firmly believe it.
What makes the Stratelliteä so special is that it will provide (i) an incredibly cheap (ii) fully-recoverable (iii) high altitude (13 miles from the surface of the earth) (iv) stable, geo-synchronous digital equipment platform— that will flood more than 125,000 square miles beneath it with every conceivable flavor of digital radio spectrum. “The Highest Tower in the Sky” is the way we think about it, except that unlike ugly cell towers which blight our landscapes and whose signals are blocked, diverted or diminished by surface obstacles (hills, trees, buildings, etc.), our Stratelliteä will have a direct, vertical, line-of-sight shot immediately beneath it with no obstacles in the way of its signals— whether broadband signals, cellphone signals, IPTV signals, data signals, infra-red photography, high resolution photography, electromagnetic sensors, radar, etc.
I believe in GTE technology and can say with a great certainty that it will move forward. The Stratellite platform is sorely needed both militarily and commercially.
The point I'm trying to make is that we have been basically telling certain business sectors that we are going to take away some (plenty) of your market. Do we expect these players to sit back and do nothing? As I said in my previous post we haven't seen nothing yet. Had GTE spoked softly instead of SHOUTED, we may have remained under the radar screen and wouldn't have to put with so much garbage. We started the WAR and now we must fight to the finish.
