Re: Sats vs plain UMTS

[Doug Royer]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> 
> At 09:58 16.04.2000 +0300, Musandu wrote:
> >Could hand held satelitte phones kill UMTS even before it takes root,
> > as the key tools for personal high bandwidth internet access?
> 
> at the moment I think GSM killed Iridium, so the shoe may be on the other
> foot..

Not only is Iridium dead - The news said they are starting to send
signals to the satellites to force them out of orbit - to splash in
the ocean!

-Doug