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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (4367)	3/6/1999 6:48:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

<Ottawa -- The federal government is stocking up on satellite-based telephones as part of a backup plan against Year 2000-related disruptions in the public telephone system.> OH DEAR ... All the talk of satellite phones and the millennium bug is making manufacturers of the technology nervous, however. Like most other digitally based systems, Iridium's network also needs to be analyzed, fixed and tested for any millennium-bug related glitches. And like the majority of companies doing similar work, guarantees for 2000 are out of the question -- even if Iridium considers its system compliant. "Iridium has not been designed to be a catastrophic-event system," Iridium Canada president Maurice Rompre said in an interview. "It should by no means be considered as a backbone system for Y2K catastrophe." Cheryl