Iridium Gets Another Break
from the throwing-good-money-after-bad dept
Iridium has gotten yet another break from its creditors. Do they really think that giving them an extra month and a half is going to turn around this complete disaster? At what point do they pull the plug?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Iridium
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So, what to do then?
If so, what do you do with this fleet of satellites up there in orbit? Let it disintegrate in space? That's a total loss on investment. If voice data isn't cost-effective to transmit over Iridium, what other kinds of data are there? Maybe some kind of vitally important realtime telemetry would give them better bang for the buck.
Do they make a CHEAP Iridium satchelphone and wire up the third world?
Could they make receive-only Iridium gadgets for cheap and get into the pager business worldwide? Jon
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All good questions
Yes, cell phones can accomplish most of what Iridium could do for insanely lower prices. In fact, in some cases it appears that cell phones are better (I've heard a few times that folks can't get their Iridium phones to work indoors!!).
Maybe they should blow up the satellites and charge folks for the light show... Or, perhaps they could become novelty collectors items. Auction off each satellite on eBay...
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