Simon Mason wrote
bm wrote
Brian Gaff wrote

I notice that this month a new Iridium sat phone satellite is being
launched. Who is funding this these days, for ages it seemed to be a
dead
in the water system.

Simon Mason is funding it.

I couldn't even use to today in Dortmund as there are too many high
buildings.

Yep, completely useless for all but the most remote outside any buildings
situations.

You cant even use them on a decent sized ship, you have to go outside.

Completely useless for normal communications and insanely expensive
to use even when they do work. Only viable for commercial operations
that are earning great slabs of money or govt etc.