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A telephone for the world :

1421424843

1421424843

9781421424842

1421424835

9781421424835

A telephone for the world :

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Iridium, Motorola, and the making of a global age /

Martin Collins.

Baltimore :

Johns Hopkins University Press,

2018.

©2018

1 online resource (viii, 265 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-258) and index.

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.

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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. As one of the founding engineers noted, the constellation "bathed the planet in radiation," enabling a completely global communications system. Focusing on the Iridium venture, this book explores the story of globalization at a crucial period in US and international history. As the Cold War waned, corporations and nations reoriented toward a new global order in which markets, neoliberal ideology, and the ideal of a borderless world predominated. As a planetary-scale technological system, the project became emblematic of this shift and of the role of the United States as geopolitical superpower. In its ambition, scope, challenges, and organizing ideas, the rise of Iridium provides telling insight into how this new global condition stimulated a re-thinking of corporate practices--on the factory floor, in culture and knowledge, and in international relations. Combining oral history interviews with research in corporate records, Martin Collins opens up new angles on what global meant in the years just before and after the end of the Cold War. The first book to tell the story of Iridium in this context, A Telephone for the World is a fascinating look at how people, nations, and corporations across the world grappled in different ways with the meaning of a new historical era. -- Provided by publisher.

Telephone for the world.

9781421424835

Iridium Communications, Inc.

Iridium Communications, Inc.

Motorola Communications and Electronics, Chicago, Ill.

Artificial satellites in telecommunication-- United States-- History.

Telecommunication-- United States-- History.

Artificial satellites in telecommunication.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Industries-- Media & Communications.

Geopolitik

Globalisierung

Handy

Iridium

Satellitenfunk

Satellitentelefon

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Telecommunications.

Telecommunication.

Telekommunikation

Telekommunikationsnetz

United States.

USA.

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BUS-- 070060

TEC-- 041000

Collins, Martin J.,1951-

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