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To: Dragonfly who wrote (2690)4/22/1998 5:54:00 PM
From: Dragonfly  Read Replies (1) of 10852
 
Ok, got some hard numbers for iridium capacity.

Motorola claims the limit is around 55,000 simultaneous calls at a given time. (Aparently there is some debate that the actual number may be higher.) If you multiply this out, it comes to 2,376,000,000 minutes in a 30 day month. This puts the Iridium system capacity at 28.5Billion minutes a year. Significantly more than the 12 Billion minutes a year that I think someone said was Globalstar's capacity.

Now, while this is a "on the napkin" calculation, before you quibble with my numbers, provide some calculations for the Globalstar capacity estimates, as I've never seen any rationale given for them.

Dragonfly
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