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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1632)5/2/1998 8:17:00 AM
From: RocketMan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2394
 
Well, what I meant is that the Iridium system is too costly to build and operate. If that were the only way to get packets around the world, that is one thing. But Iridium is going up against current backbones and infrastructure enhancements that are much cheaper, such as xDSL, fiber, and caching systems from GEO satellites.