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

To: Dennis R. Duke who wrote (1286)	2/5/1999 7:36:00 PM
From: Joe Brown	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2693

Dennis: This is the crux of the issue that truly has me baffled. The I* phone is exceedingly portable, though a bit bigger than a cell phone, for sure. I take it everywhere, and no matter where I am I can "phone home", with a damn good connection and no hotel operators or funky landline connections to interfere or cause me any delay in making the call. The product is the only one of its kind, and will be the only one of its kind for a great long time (the kind that will work on every square inch of earth, including water). I love the thing, but I must have a chromosome that Iridium's marketing people can't find in the potential subscribers they're chasing; maybe screening DNA files for customers would work! By the way, I made a call today (just for the hell of it) to a colleague in my office building, from my office within the same building. He was about 100 feet away in another private office, and by all rights the call should not have worked. Anyway, the phone sent its signal to the constellation and back down to the Phoenix area gateway, then to my colleague via landline, a distance of about 2000 miles. The system's performance has improved dramatically in the last couple of weeks - the call was excellent. Jack