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To: Dragonfly who wrote (1232)	6/17/1998 11:04:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3436

Tero is not claiming Iridium is analog. Even with Iridium's digital backbone, this system has too little bandwidth to be a serious competition in the future. With $2 to $3 a minute, only the backpack-loving executives of some companies would be interested. How many executives are into backpacking in the middle of nowhere? Time Traveler

To: Dragonfly who wrote (1232)	6/18/1998 4:44:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3436

Nobody said that Iridium is analog. But it was built on the premise that analog phones would dominate the marketplace for the nineties. And then Iridium would waltz in and stun the high-end consumers. Well, they are going to be stunned alright... but not for the right reasons. Motorola had no idea that there would be an entire product class of 100-150 gram digital phones, some with one-week stand-by times, in the market by 1998. They had no idea how widespread digital networks would be. That is why the Iridium is like pagers or analog phones. All products that were passed by the progress. "Time and tide wait for no man" is my favorite misquote. And there lies the irony of Iridium being touted as some Space Age turnaround project for Motorola. This project is as old and mouldy as they come, built on false 1990 projections of how the mobile business would develop. Tero