Chad Franzen’s Blog

Satellite Phone picture of Earth


Chad Franzen’s Blog
WSAW - It’s here it’s finally here. After a few months of working out some major technical issues with the feasibility of doing what we’ve done.. we have now added a feature called my Local Radar. It is a county by county (sometimes 2 counties) high

Iridium Satellite Phone Per-Minute Prices To Drop To 15 Cents
Information Week - A new low-cost plan for high-volume satellite phone callers was announced Wednesday by Iridium Satellite, which said prices for its “super discount” packages could be as low as 15 cents a minute. Iridium’s service covers North America, including the

The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980 - 2020 (continued)
Wired - Soon after, the big satellite projects come online. By 1998, the Iridium global phone network is complete. By 2002, Teledesic’s global Internet network is operational. These projects, among others, allow seamless connection to the information