The Unmaking Of Motorola
Forbes - in the wrong countries bought his products or his products, like the much ballyhooed Q phone Motorola had spent billions developing Iridium, its global telephony system. In this satellite-based technology, all calls are switched in the sky
Mother Earth Mother Board
Wired - and can no longer compete with submarine cables, at least until such time as low-flying constellations such as Iridium report on their laptops, embed a few digital images in it, and email it to the other side of the world over a satellite phone
Squabbling over space junk
Bangkok Post - Just think about Iridium and all the other low earth orbit (LEO) systems that were supposed to offer a global handheld phone service _ just after GSM had mapped out the world with a better service at lower cost. Or satellite radio, which I heard