Some people are happy and some are worried!
Recently, Qualcomm's satellite project with Iridium was terminated because major mobile phone manufacturers did not adopt this scheme. And if there is no use, there will be no business to do, and Qualcomm will naturally not make loss-making transactions.
Why doesn't anyone use it?
Everyone should be able to guess: mobile phone manufacturers either make professional satellite phones, and buy large ones with long antennas, thousands of dollars a month, but ensure that you can make calls in the field, suitable for professionals.
Or, like a certain for, a certain Lola like their own development, so that their ordinary mobile phones can also be connected to satellites, you can take into account satellite communications, although there is no professional good, but the phone bill is only a few dozen yuan, no need to buy equipment, suitable for ordinary people who occasionally go to the wild to play.
In short, they should not use Qualcomm's scheme, and if they have money, they will earn it themselves, and they will not pay the "Qualcomm tax".
In addition, the Iridium phone is also very expensive to remember, and when there were not many other satellite phones in the past, many explorers would rather use maritime satellite phones, just to make it cheaper.
Qualcomm ➕ Iridium, the two of them are together, isn't that more expensive? Who can afford it? What's more, now that everyone's satellite communication technology is also up, there is really no need for Qualcomm.