Reasons for failure (Score 2)

I'm not too sure most people might understand why it failed. I used to work for Bell Mobility, which was partnered with Iridium and we were given a small presentation on the product and their goals. First of all the cell itself was the same size as a cell from 2-3 years ago. And it worked the same as a regular cell until it was attached to the "satellite transmission piece", then it became big clumsy piece of technology. The service for it was expensive, but you have to look at how Iridium was trying to market their product. They weren't trying to sell their service to everybody, they were trying to attract a corporate clientele that had the money and need to use such a service. I think where they went wrong was that they limited themselves to only offering phone services. Someone wrote that they failed because people want to be wired (use fiber optics) and not be wireless (use satellite), which is nonsense and not a reason why they failed. Both type of transmission offer different benefits. What Iridium should have done is also offer other services such as internet connectivity which is one of the only way to obtain broadband wireless connectivity.