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

To: Joe Brown who wrote (1140)	12/8/1998 11:09:00 PM
From: Joe Brown	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2693

IRIDIUM phone: My IRIDIUM phone system arrived yesterday. After a night of charging the unit and reading the extremely complete "User's Guide", and with some additional help from my Motorola Cellular sales rep, I made several satellite system phone calls. To anyone out there who is wondering if IRIDIUM is for real, let me be among the first to tell you...IT IS. One of the calls was to another satellite unit, and was made inside my home. The other two were to colleagues in two different states; all the calls were successful. Some IRIDIUM satellites' software is clearly more "debugged" than others, and the call quality ranged from perfect to "slightly" imperfect, though at no time did we have trouble communicating. There were NO dropped calls. I can also tell you that IRIDIUM's "presentation", meaning how the phone system was packaged when I received it, was very attractive; this is a first class organization. I should mention that I DO NOT work for IRIDIUM or for any communications company, for that matter. I am a private subscriber who paid for this satellite phone system with personal funds. I am also an investor in the system, as you have probably surmised. My purpose here is to make clear that, to me at least, IRIDIUM is no longer a concept. It is a reality...