Wow. I covered the telephony industry for a while, and had no idea that Iridium's ambitions had once been this great. When I spoke with them a year or two ago,

Wow. I covered the telephony industry for a while, and had no idea that Iridium's ambitions had once been this great. When I spoke with them a year or two ago, they were selling themselves as a last-ditch backup, trying to penetrate the enterprise market by saying, "Hey, we're expensive but you don't have to use us until you need us!" Satellite rates are incredibly high relatively speaking, and it's just amazing to see how this company, which comes off as an 80s relic, actually came to be.