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                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.8


                                 METRICOM, INC.

                        1991 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

                            Adopted November 12, 1991
                             Approved March 19, 1992
                            Amended January 24, 1996
                             Approved April 24, 1996
                             Amended April 29, 1998
                             Approved June 26, 1998
                             Amended August 16, 1999
                            Approved October 15, 1999
                            Amended February 18, 2000
                             Approved June 26, 2000


1. PURPOSE.

        (a) The purpose of the Plan is to provide a means by which employees of
Metricom, Inc., a California corporation (the "Company"), and its Affiliates, as
defined in subparagraph 1(b), which are designated as provided in subparagraph
2(b), may be given an opportunity to purchase stock of the Company.

        (b) The word "Affiliate" as used in the Plan means any parent
corporation or subsidiary corporation of the Company, as those terms are defined
in Sections 424(e) and (f), respectively, of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended (the "Code").

        (c) The Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to retain the services of
its employees, to secure and retain the services of new employees, and to
provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the success of
the Company.

        (d) The Company intends that the rights to purchase stock of the Company
granted under the Plan be considered options issued under an "employee stock
purchase plan" as that term is defined in Section 423(b) of the Code.

2. ADMINISTRATION.

        (a) The Plan shall be administered by the Board of Directors (the
"Board") of the Company unless and until the Board delegates administration to a
Committee, as provided in subparagraph 2(c). Whether or not the Board has
delegated administration, the Board shall have the final power to determine all
questions of policy and expediency that may arise in the administration of the
Plan.

        (b) The Board shall have the power, subject to, and within the
limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan:

                (i) To determine when and how rights to purchase stock shall be
granted and the provisions of each offering of such rights (which need not be
identical).


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                (ii) To designate from time to time which Affiliates of the
Company shall be eligible to participate in the Plan.

                (iii) To construe and interpret the Plan and rights granted
under it, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for its
administration. The Board, in the exercise of this power, may correct any
defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan, in a manner and to the extent it
shall deem necessary or expedient to make the Plan fully effective.

                (iv) To amend the Plan as provided in paragraph 13.

                (v) Generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts
as the Board deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the
Company.

        (c) The Board may delegate administration of the Plan to a Committee
composed of not fewer than two (2) members of the Board (the "Committee"). If
administration is delegated to a Committee, the Committee shall have, in
connection with the administration of the Plan, the powers theretofore possessed
by the Board, subject, however, to such resolutions, not inconsistent with the
provisions of the Plan, as may be adopted from time to time by the Board. The
Board may abolish the Committee at any time and revest in the Board the
administration of the Plan.

3. SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN.

        Subject to the provisions of paragraph 12 relating to adjustments upon
changes in stock, the stock that may be sold pursuant to rights granted under
the Plan shall not exceed in the aggregate one million fifty thousand
(1,050,000) shares of the Company's common stock (the "Common Stock"). If any
right granted under the Plan shall for any reason terminate without having been
exercised, the Common Stock not purchased under such right shall again become
available for the Plan.

4. GRANT OF RIGHTS; OFFERING.

        The Board or the Committee may from time to time grant or provide for
the grant of rights to purchase Common Stock of the Company under the Plan to
eligible employees (an "Offering") on a date or dates (the "Offering Date(s)")
selected by the Board or the Committee. Each Offering shall be in such form and
shall contain such terms and conditions as the Board or the Committee shall deem
appropriate. If an employee has more than one right outstanding under the Plan,
unless he or she otherwise indicates in agreements or notices delivered
hereunder: (1) each agreement or notice delivered by that employee will be
deemed to apply to all of his or her rights under the Plan, and (2) a right with
a lower exercise price (or an earlier-granted right, if two rights have
identical exercise prices), will be exercised to the fullest possible extent
before a right with a higher exercise price (or a later-granted right, if two
rights have identical exercise prices) will be exercised. The provisions of
separate Offerings need not be identical, but each Offering shall include
(through incorporation of the provisions of this Plan by reference in the
Offering or otherwise) the substance of the provisions contained in paragraphs 5
through 8, inclusive.


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5. ELIGIBILITY.

        (a) Rights may be granted only to employees of the Company or, as the
Board or the Committee may designate as provided in subparagraph 2(b), to
employees of any Affiliate of the Company. Except as provided in subparagraph
5(b), an employee of the Company or any Affiliate shall not be eligible to be
granted rights under the Plan, unless, on the Offering Date, such employee has
been in the employ of the Company or any Affiliate for such continuous period
preceding such grant as the Board or the Committee may require, but in no event
shall the required period of continuous employment be equal to or greater than
two (2) years. In addition, unless otherwise determined by the Board or the
Committee, no employee of the Company or any Affiliate shall be eligible to be
granted rights under the Plan, unless, on the Offering Date, such employee's
customary employment with the Company or such Affiliate is at least twenty (20)
hours per week and at least five (5) months per calendar year.

        (b) The Board or the Committee may provide that, each person who, during
the course of an Offering, first becomes an eligible employee of the Company or
designated Affiliate will, on a date or dates specified in the Offering which
coincides with the day on which such person becomes an eligible employee or
occurs thereafter, receive a right under that Offering, which right shall
thereafter be deemed to be a part of that Offering. Such right shall have the
same characteristics as any rights originally granted under that Offering, as
described herein, except that:

                        (i) the date on which such right is granted shall be the
"Offering Date" of such right for all purposes, including determination of the
exercise price of such right;

                        (ii) the Offering Period for such right shall begin on
its Offering Date and end coincident with the end of such Offering; and

                        (iii) the Board or the Committee may provide that if
such person first becomes an eligible employee within a specified period of time
before the end of the Offering, he or she will not receive any right under that
Offering.

        (c) No employees shall be eligible for the grant of any rights under the
Plan if, immediately after any such rights are granted, such employee owns stock
possessing five percent (5%) or more of the total combined voting power or value
of all classes of stock of the Company or of any Affiliate. For purposes of this
subparagraph 5(d), the rules of Section 424(d) of the Code shall apply in
determining the stock ownership of any employee, and stock which such employee
may purchase under all outstanding rights and options shall be treated as stock
owned by such employee.

        (d) An eligible employee may be granted rights under the Plan only if
such rights, together with any other rights granted under "employee stock
purchase plans" of the Company and any Affiliates, as specified by Section
423(b)(8) of the Code, do not permit such employee's rights to purchase stock of
the Company or any Affiliate to accrue at a rate which exceeds twenty-five
thousand dollars ($25,000) of fair market value of such stock (determined at the
time such rights are granted) for each calendar year in which such rights are
outstanding at any time.


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6. RIGHTS; PURCHASE PRICE.

        (a) On each Offering Date, each eligible employee, pursuant to an
Offering made under the Plan, shall be granted the right to purchase the number
of shares of Common Stock of the Company purchasable with up to fifteen percent
(15%) of such employee's Earnings (as defined in Section 7(a)) during the period
which begins on the Offering Date (or such later date as the Board determines
for a particular Offering) and ends on the date stated in the Offering, which
date shall be no more than twenty-seven (27) months after the Offering Date (the
"Offering Period"). In connection with each Offering made under this Plan, the
Board or the Committee shall specify a maximum number of shares which may be
purchased by any employee as well as a maximum aggregate number of shares which
may be purchased by all eligible employees pursuant to such Offering. In
addition, in connection with each such Offering, the Board or the Committee may
specify a maximum aggregate number of shares which may be purchased by all
eligible employees on any given Exercise Date (as defined in the Offering) under
the Offering. If the aggregate purchase of shares upon exercise of rights
granted under the Offering would exceed any such maximum aggregate number, the
Board or the Committee shall make a pro rata allocation of the shares available
in as nearly a uniform manner as shall be practicable and as it shall deem to be
equitable.

        (b) The purchase price of stock acquired pursuant to rights granted
under the Plan shall be not less than the lesser of:

                (i) an amount equal to eighty-five percent (85%) of the fair
market value of the stock on the Offering Date; or

                (ii) an amount equal to eight-five percent (85%) of the fair
market value of the stock on the Exercise Date.

7. PARTICIPATION; WITHDRAWAL; TERMINATION.

        (a) An eligible employee may become a participant in an Offering by
delivering an agreement to the Company within the time specified in the
Offering, in such form as the Company provides. Each such agreement shall
authorize payroll deductions of up to fifteen percent (15%) of such employee's
Earnings during the Offering Period. "Earnings" is defined as base salary or
wages and including amounts elected to be deferred by the employee (that would
otherwise have been paid) under the Company's 401(k) Plan, and may include or
exclude bonuses, commissions, overtime pay, incentive pay, profit sharing, other
remuneration paid directly to the employee, the cost of employee benefits paid
for by the Company or an Affiliate, education or tuition reimbursements, imputed
income arising under any group insurance or benefit program, traveling expenses,
business and moving expense reimbursements, income received in connection with
stock options, contributions made by the Company or an Affiliate under any
employee benefit plan, and similar items of compensation as determined by the
Board or Committee and as set forth in the Offering. The payroll deductions made
for each participant shall be credited to an account for such participant under
the Plan and shall be deposited with the general funds of the Company. At any
time during the Offering a participant may terminate his or her payroll
deductions. A participant may reduce, increase or begin such payroll deductions
after the beginning of any Offering Period only as provided for in the Offering.
A participant


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may not make any additional payments into his or her account unless expressly
provided for in the Offering.

        (b) If a participant terminates his or her payroll deductions, such
participant may withdraw from the Offering by delivering to the Company a notice
of withdrawal in such form as the Company provides. Such withdrawal may be
elected at any time prior to the end of the Offering Period. Upon such
withdrawal from the Offering by a participant, the Company shall distribute to
such participant all of his or her accumulated payroll deductions (reduced to
the extent, if any, such deductions have been used to acquire stock for the
participant) under the Offering without interest, and such participant's
interest in that Offering shall be automatically terminated. A participant's
withdrawal from an Offering will have no effect upon such participant's
eligibility to participate in any other Offerings under the Plan but such
participant will be required to deliver a new participation agreement in order
to participate in other Offerings under the Plan.

        (c) Rights granted pursuant to any Offering under the Plan shall
terminate immediately upon cessation of any participating employee's employment
with the Company or an Affiliate, for any reason, and the Company shall
distribute to such terminated employee all of his or her accumulated payroll
deductions (reduced to the extent, if any, such deductions have been used to
acquire stock for the terminated employee), without interest; provided, however,
that subject to the right of the terminated employee to withdraw from the
Offering and receive a distribution of his or her accumulated payroll deductions
(as described in paragraph 7(b)), in the event that a participating employee's
employment ceases within three (3) months of the next Exercise Date, the balance
in such employee's account shall be held and used to purchase Common Stock for
the terminated employee on such Exercise Date pursuant to the terms of the
ongoing Offering.

        (d) Rights granted under the Plan shall not be transferable, and shall
be exercisable only by the person to whom such rights are granted.

8. EXERCISE.

        (a) On each exercise date, as defined in the relevant Offering (an
"Exercise Date"), each participant's accumulated payroll deductions (without any
increase for interest) will be applied to the purchase of whole shares of stock
of the Company, up to the maximum number of shares permitted pursuant to the
terms of the Plan and the applicable Offering, at the purchase price specified
in the Offering. No fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise of
rights granted under the Plan. The amount, if any, of accumulated payroll
deductions remaining in each participant's account after the purchase of shares
which is less than the amount required to purchase one share of stock on the
final Exercise Date of an Offering shall be held in each such participant's
account for the purchase of shares under the next Offering under the Plan,
unless such participant withdraws from such next Offering, as provided in
subparagraph 7(b), or is no longer eligible to be granted rights under the Plan,
as provided in paragraph 5, in which case such amount shall be distributed to
such participant after such Exercise Date, without interest. The amount, if any,
of accumulated payroll deductions remaining in any participant's account after
the purchase of shares which is equal to the amount required to purchase whole
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on the final Exercise Date of an Offering shall be distributed in full to such
participant after such Exercise Date, without interest.

        (b) No rights granted under the Plan may be exercised to any extent
unless the Plan (including rights granted thereunder) is covered by an effective
registration statement pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. If,
on an Exercise Date of any Offering hereunder, the Plan is not so registered, no
rights granted under the Plan or any Offering shall be exercised and all payroll
deductions accumulated and not previously applied to the purchase of Common
Stock shall be distributed to the participants, without interest.

9. COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY.

        (a) During the terms of the rights granted under the Plan, the Company
shall keep available at all times the number of shares of stock required to
satisfy such rights.

        (b) The Company shall seek to obtain from each regulatory commission or
agency having jurisdiction over the Plan such authority as may be required to
issue and sell shares of stock upon exercise of the rights granted under the
Plan. If, after reasonable efforts, the Company is unable to obtain from any
such regulatory commission or agency the authority which counsel for the Company
deems necessary for the lawful issuance and sale of stock under the Plan, the
Company shall be relieved from any liability for failure to issue and sell stock
upon exercise of such rights unless and until such authority is obtained.

10. USE OF PROCEEDS FROM STOCK.

        Proceeds from the sale of stock pursuant to rights granted under the
Plan shall constitute general funds of the Company.

11. RIGHTS AS A SHAREHOLDER.

        A participant shall not be deemed to be the holder of, or to have any of
the rights of a holder with respect to, any shares subject to rights granted
under the Plan unless and until certificates representing such shares shall have
been issued.

12. ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN STOCK.

        (a) If any change is made in the stock subject to the Plan, or subject
to any rights granted under the Plan (through merger, consolidation,
reorganization, recapitalization, stock dividend, dividend in property other
than cash, stock split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of
shares, change in corporate structure or otherwise), the Board shall make
appropriate adjustments in the maximum number of shares subject to the Plan and
the number of shares and price per share of stock subject to outstanding rights.

        (b) In the event of: (1) a dissolution or liquidation of the Company;
(2) a merger or consolidation in which the Company is not the surviving
corporation; (3) a reverse merger in which the Company is the surviving
corporation but the shares of the Company's Common Stock outstanding immediately
preceding the merger are converted by virtue of the merger into other property,
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reorganization in which more than fifty percent (50%) of the shares of the
Company entitled to vote are exchanged, then, as determined by the Board in its
sole discretion, any surviving corporation shall assume outstanding rights or
substitute similar rights for those under the Plan, such rights shall continue
in full force and effect, or such rights shall be exercised immediately prior to
such event.

13. AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN.

        (a) The Board at any time, and from time to time, may amend the Plan.
However, except as provided in paragraph 12 relating to adjustments upon changes
in stock, no amendment shall be effective unless approved by the shareholders of
the Company within 12 months before or after the adoption of the amendment,
where the amendment will:

                (i) Increase the number of shares reserved for rights under the
Plan; or

                (ii) Modify the provisions as to eligibility for participation
in the Plan or modify the Plan in any other way to the extent such modification
requires shareholder approval in order for the Plan to obtain employee stock
purchase plan treatment under Section 423 of the Code.

                It is expressly contemplated that the Board may amend the Plan
in any respect the Board deems necessary or advisable to provide eligible
employees with the maximum benefits provided or to be provided under the
provisions of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder relating to
employee stock purchase plans and/or to bring the Plan and/or rights granted
under it into compliance therewith.

        (b) Rights and obligations under any rights granted before amendment of
the Plan shall not be altered or impaired by any amendment of the Plan, except
with the consent of the person to whom such rights were granted.

14. TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE PLAN.

        (a) The Board may suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. No rights
may be granted under the Plan while the Plan is suspended or after it is
terminated.

        (b) Rights and obligations under any rights granted while the Plan is in
effect shall not be altered or impaired by suspension or termination of the
Plan, except with the consent of the person to whom such rights were granted.




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