Tech > Iridium is Still Going
Someone in a comment to this post mentioned that the Iridium satellite phone network was still a going concern. That was news to me. I used to keep up with those guys back in my 56k.com days, but lost track of them after they went bankrupt. Current phone prices are $1,000 plus and airtime is $1 per minute plus. Hurricane Katrina has Iridium in the news again.
To paraphrase John Dvorak, there are probably international backpackers who thought that Iridium was a great idea, but did that justify launching 66 satellites?
Posted by lesjones