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Interestingly, they're still popular with some very adventurous groups, e.g. Round-the-world sailors, motorcyclists going through remote locations, climbers and
by seanp2k2 11y ago
Interestingly, they're still popular with some very adventurous groups, e.g. Round-the-world sailors, motorcyclists going through remote locations, climbers and hikers in remote places / foreign countries, etc.
Very useful if it's the only thing that will work.
- mikeash 11y agoExactly. For some cases it's an amazing service. It just wasn't enough to sustain a company that had to spend $5 billion up front to get things started. Once that got discharged in bankruptcy, it managed to do OK.
- vocatus_gate 11y agoI've used Iridium sat phones in Iraq, and am currently prepping for deployment to Antarctica, where we'll have Iridium phones as backup to a satellite data link.