[easp]

I don't know if the numbers pencilled out, but Teledesic, another company with similar ambitions, but, I think, using satellites in lower orbit, was trying to get some long term customers from countries with a lot of wide open spaces, where the cost of providing wired infrastructure, or even wireless infrastructure strung together with point to point microwave connections, was prohibitive.

Australia was one of their targets, but I think also some of the telcos in the western US, which had obligations to provide service, even in sparsely populated areas.

but yeah. big Fail