[at-l] Cell tower in Yellowstone?

[spiriteagle99 at hotmail.com (Jim and/or Ginny Owen)]

J Bryan wrote:

>Sat phones have been a miserable failure, check out iridium.
>

Bryan -
Iridium is the worst of all possible examples.  Both the satellite and 
system design were crap, the operations philosophy was worse and neither the 
sales nor the expected performance ever materialized.  At one time they 
wanted me to go work on the production end - and later on the ops end. I 
didn't think that was a good idea - for me.  I was right. But later I spent 
long nights talking to the people who did go.  They made a lot of overtime 
and per diem money doing nothing - and left in disgust at the sheer 
incompetence of the Iridium management.   Iridium only survived because da 
gubmint intervened.  Which, to my mind, is exactly what Motorola had in mind 
from the beginning.  But maybe that's just one of my paranoid delusions.  I 
didn't even bother to follow it much after 1999.

Sat phones are a great idea - and eminently doable - and would eliminate 
cellphone towers.  IF - and only IF - the system was designed by someone who 
knew what they were doing.  Did you see Dilbert today?  It was directly 
applicable.

Have a good weekend,
Jim

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