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**Eivind Kjorstad**

skreiv:
On Oct 10, 7:25 am, Eivind Kjorstad wrote:

Could you run by us again how you plan to sell 50 billion channels to 6
billion people by having each person purchase one channel ?
Could you also explain how being able to afford $1/year is enough to
cover the nessecary satelite receiver-transmitter ?

To answer Elvind's question bandwidth demand goes up with time as
services increase and improve.

Since there is a long lead time between the start of the project and
the end of its useful life, it makes sense to over specify the design
to account for this increase. 50 billion channels is about the best I
can reasonably come up with.

You babble a lot. I snipped a page-and-ahalf of irrelevant babble.

Yet you fail to answer simple questions adequately.

I read your answer as:

"I *don't* expect to sell 50 billion, or anywhere close to that,
channels initially, but perhaps later when demand increases"

If you -DONT- expect to be able to sell 50 billion channels early-on, it
is disingenoious to argue as if you -would- be able to sell that many
when doing financial math. The same money earned -later- is worth
-less-. This is pretty basic.

So, how many channels -do- you expect being able to sell, say in the
first 3 years of operation ?

Please note: even starting with human population is wildly
overoptimistic. (despite being an order of magnitude under 50 billion)

Unless you're thinking subsistence-farmers in china will not only get a
computer, electric power, a satelite-up/downlink and your service, but
they will choose to get one for every member of the household, including
the 2-year-old and the blind 60-year-old who can't read.

Eivind Kjørstad