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Technology Stocks : IRID - Iridium World Communications IPO Announced!

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To: Dragonfly who wrote (1487)3/31/1999 10:09:00 AM
From: SoliRA  Read Replies (2) of 2693
 
Indoors/Outdoors/Foliage problems

Here's a stupid question: Why can't Iridium provide a phone that plugs into an outdoor/ outside vehicle antenna?

My old Mercedes has an antenna outside that the old-style cellular phone used to be attached too. Worked fine. I prefer my smaller phone, but if I'm a military guy, sticking a two or three foot whip antenna on the back of my zillion-ton tank is no big deal

Same goes for bunkers. I ran cable from inside our bombproof shelters to antennas on the outside to get weather data. Same could be done with Iridium phones. This isn't rocket or satellite science - just wires and pliers stuff. Iridium just needs to provide a jack on the side of their phone.

Bob Soli.
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