IP: Good question RE: Iridium Satellite Emerges from the Ashes

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
>
> [Note:  This comment comes from reader Dave Hughes.  DLH]
>
> At 7:37 -0800 11/4/01, Dave Hughes wrote:
> > From: "Dave Hughes" <dave () oldcolo com>
> > To: <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> > Subject: RE: Iridium Satellite Emerges from the Ashes
> > Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 07:37:05 -0800
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> >
> > Does anyone on this list know why all the news and handwringing is about
> > Iridium and not Globalstar? Using Quaalcom CDMA digital signal, a
> > Globalstar phone carries voice AND data satisfactorily. While Iridium is
> > analog all the way, right? And always cost about the same as Iridium is
> > now - $1.50 a minute with a $1,000 phone that is not the size of a brick
> > as Iridium was.
> >
> > I don't get it. Does anyone else?
> >
> > Dave Hughes
> > dave () oldcolo com


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