A good start would be to open the floodgates for the global onrush of low earth orbit satellites dedicated to computer communications. Globalstar is the easy winner for current offering of mobile phone services under a CDMA regime of spectrum sharing. But Teledesic can add phone services to its broadband computer system. Over time, Teledesic's 840 satellites will outperform Globalstar's 48. When that happens, Globalstar has a shot at the grand prize.
Iridium is both too expensive to compete in mobile phones and too narrowband for data.
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