MUNICH-Siemens AG won contracts worth $64.7 million from the Iridium mobile phone network. Siemens said that Motorola Inc., which founded and leads the Iridium project, placed an order for 12 switching systems with Siemens’ public communications networks division.
The Iridium system plans to use 66 satellites for a global mobile phone satellite network with service beginning in 1998.
