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   Ian Stirling to msu1049321@aol.com   
   Re: How's Iridium doing?   
   11 Feb 04 18:03:04   
   
   From: root@mauve.demon.co.uk   
      
   MSu1049321  wrote:   
   > The remaining sats were bought out and run by another company, immediately   
   > turned around a lucrative military comms contract and then...?  What's the   
   > status of the system now, and what are the prospects for it's future?   
      
   Well, phones are selling quite well on ebay, for a little over $(us)1K,   
   I don't know what the retail is.   
   Does the system include radiolocation of a transmitting phone?   
      
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