Wireless still lags wire line in quality, reliability and Web-surfing.

FORBES: Cut the cord

The Consumer segment offers wire line services such as internet, telephony and television, and retail and wholesale wireless services.

FORBES: #954 KPN

Wireless telecom is letting both leapfrog a hard-wire era that they largely missed, and the social Web is responding.

FORBES: Thoughts

Satellite telephones should also be useful in shipping and aviation, as well as in less-developed countries that lack either modern fixed-wire or wireless telephone infrastructures.

ECONOMIST: Is Iridium about to fall to earth?