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A telephone for the world : Iridium, Motorola, and the making of a global age /

In June 1990, Motorola publicly announced an ambitious business venture called Iridium. The project's signature feature was a constellation of 77 satellites in low-Earth orbit which served as the equivalent of cellular towers, connecting to mobile customers below using wireless hand-held phones...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Collins, Martin J., 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Iridium and the global age
  • The global and the engineers
  • The global and Iridium the business
  • "Freedom to communicate": ideology and culture in the global
  • From "it's a bird, it's a phone ..." to "Edsels in the sky": or, the end of Iridium's global vision
  • Conclusion.