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Technology Stocks : IRID - Iridium World Communications IPO Announced! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (2656)	4/24/2001 7:02:49 PM
From: Rocket Scientist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2693

Have you done any DD on exactly where an Iridium phone can now be legally used? I don't buy this "truly global" mantra at the new Irid home web site. Even old Iridium was not licensed in quite a few places, and it had active GWs in Russia, China and India, and lawyers/local reps in about a hundred other countries, which new Iridium, to my knowledge, does not. Many countries will not license a system that bypasses the local PTT, because they want to be able to do lawful intercept, to protect the local companies, and/or collect taxes/fees. I doubt that "new" Iridium has changed that mentality over night.