IP: Mobile Satellite: Lessons Learned

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> The Society of Satellite Professionals (SSPI), with the Mobile Satellite
> Users Association (MSUA), sponsored a panel discussion, "Mobile Satellites:
> Lessons Learned" on March 21 at the Intelsat headquarters in Washington, DC.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> A lot of gloomy post mortems from ex-officers of (old) Iridium, Orbcomm,
> Motient and (old) ICO. Many mistakes admitted, except by the FCC, which (of
> course) considers it did everything right.
>
> Favorite quote:
>
> "When asked whether the failure of American Mobile Satellite Corp. (now
> Motient) to attract consumer users for cellular fill-in service, as it had
> originally intended to provide, Carson Agnew, Motient executive, replied in
> jest that he thought American Mobile had simply proved, for less money, that
> the Iridium market did not exist."
>
> http://www.msua.org/sspi_meeting.htm
>
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