Its Iridium satellite-based global phone system switches all calls in the sky without using any ground stations, an impossibly difficult task.

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Last fall he was ready to unveil it as a 288-satellite system very much like Iridium.

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McCaw also has intellectual property rights to a system that connects low-orbit satellite systems like Iridium with midaltitude projects like ICO.

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