Don’t Believe the Hype: The 21 Biggest Technology Flops
Computerworld - of money to deploy, and most users were resistant to paying dollars per minute of call time and carrying around a phone In 2000, the company was taken over by Iridium Satellite LLC, which recently said that it wants to launch new satellites and hopes
The United Nations of Iridium
Wired - The United Nations of Iridium It’s a bird, it’s a phone, it’s the world’s first pan-national corporation, able to leap geopolitical and a few lucky kids - to see the last launch in a series that would create the world’s biggest satellite
Defying naysayers, Iridium Satellite finds a business model
Computerworld - The first Iridium marketed itself as a consumer satellite telephone service, but its original phone was too bulky and its service too expensive for general adoption. And there were some service quirks consumers wouldn’t accept — for instance, the