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IP: Good question RE: Iridium Satellite Emerges from the Ashes
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 11:01:57 -0500
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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