On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 21:08:50 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
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.

I went into a local park using my 3790T to navigate and got 5 bars by using my BRAIN.