Iridium is broke and they are planning on de-orbiting the 66 sattelites.
An open source project has formed to investigate buying them and creating
the world's first open source public network.
Checkit:
http://www.saveiridium.com/
There is a survey and they are looking for volunteers, ideas, and
feedback. The project seems impossible but you've got to give'em props for
having lofty dreams.
-- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/"Everybody loves the GIMP!" http://www.gimp.org/
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