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

To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (1538)	4/8/1999 8:38:00 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2693

Is there any way Iridium can use all those sattelites for something else? How functionally specific are they? I was reading the Business Week article on Iridium. Any opinions on that? You don't have to go very far from here to get out of touch of a cellular phone. From Sydney to Melbourne along there is coverage more or less along the Hume Highway (900km) and a blob around Canberra where I live. But elsewhere away from that highway there is little coverage. But then our department at the Uni where I work has a sattelite phone people can use for field work. It's not much bigger than a office desk phone. Not sure how much calls cost etc. Wonder whether the convenience of a handset only phone would be worth the extra cost? PS when is the quarterly report out? David