The Rise And Fall Of Iridium

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Massoud Baig IT 343 Professor John McLaughlin Homework #3 The Rise and fall of Iridium In 1999 Iridium LLC and ICO Global Communications services were declared bankrupt due to serious financial issues regarding interests and financing commitments. Iridium LLC was the first in introducing satellite telephone industry in the market and it gained a great fame in its period. It’s collection of round about 77 satellites and the system is using Inter-Satellite Links between the satellites. These links help in reducing the number of required gateways for communication. The Iridium technology was using 48 spot beams and TDMA method for user capacity. Iridium was a project with so many dreams. This project was started by the Motorola executive Barry Bertinger along with some engineers after a complaint from Karen Bertinger (wife of Barry Bertinger) saying “But we can’t go on vacation now, I’m just getting close to making the deal work. How can I close it from Green Turtle Cay-it’s one of the most remote island in the Bahamas! They won’t even have phone.” For understanding the failure of Iridium technology different factors are being considered to evaluate the disaster tale. The major reasons for failure of any project belonging to any domain are the same these includes bad planning, insufficient involvement of management or lack of management control, adoption of wrong marketing methods and adoption of flop technology in the sense that not considering the market trends. The first mistake of Iridium was that they had developed their own stand alone network in the space or simply a proprietary sort of network was devised for the Iridium technology. The call from a telephone or handset accesses the nearest satellite and travel across space through linked satellites and then ultimately reached down the destination point. Such system are prone to the problem
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