While I agree with your statement about governments in some countries having (and abusing to some extent) their phone monopolies, this system is likely FAR out of reach to the ordinary people in these countries in the non-"Free World", so I can't see these governments viewing it as a threat. Hell, with the super-high prices of handsets and airtime, Iridium is out of reach for most of us Slashdot readers.
Kind of proved the point you were trying to disprove there didn't ya?
The governments don't care what most of us regular Joe's are talking about - it's the people who can afford to pay for those costly handsets and airtime who're having the conversations that might interest them.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.opensrs.org/multilingual.shtml
adam
While I agree with your statement about governments in some countries having (and abusing to some extent) their phone monopolies, this system is likely FAR out of reach to the ordinary people in these countries in the non-"Free World", so I can't see these governments viewing it as a threat. Hell, with the super-high prices of handsets and airtime, Iridium is out of reach for most of us Slashdot readers.
.................................................. ..........
Kind of proved the point you were trying to disprove there didn't ya?
The governments don't care what most of us regular Joe's are talking about - it's the people who can afford to pay for those costly handsets and airtime who're having the conversations that might interest them.
adam