Radio communications Conference granted global license
             · 1996: FCC introduced a frequency-sharing plan, which allowed Teledesic to go forward with their project.
             · 1997: FCC granted license. Teledesic completed detailed design. Boeing was appointed the prime contractor, and invested $100 million. Motorola announced Celestri system with similar global communication system as Teledesic.
             · 1998: Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal invested $200 million. Motorola decided to drop Celestri project and joined Teledesic. Motorola became the prime contractor, and invested $750 million. This put a strain in Teledesic's relationship with Boeing. Teledesic expanded to Europe, Brussels, Belgium and Madrid, Spain.
             · 1999: Teledesic decided to invest $1.2 billion to take ICO satellite system out of bankruptcy. This will help Teledesic to service, and finance global satellite networking. Teledesic signed a contract with Lockheed Martin with no plans to start. Motorola and Teledesic missed deadline on technical design due to differences.
             · 2000: Teledesic merged with ICO and merged the names of the two companies. The new company name will be: ICO-Teledesic Global Limited. This year, new designs and plans are expected to be announced.
             2004: Start first service (Maney 1B).
             Teledesic is currently developing relations with service partners in countries worldwide, enabling service providers to extend their networks. Teledesic intends to use a constellation of low-Earth-orbit satellites to achieve their goal. They will be using a form of broadband, which will allow them to provide data, voice, and video transmissions to 95% of the Earth's landmasses at fiber-like speed (Bonafiel 3).
             Teledesic is planning on launching 288 operational satellites, which will form the backbone for their worldwide network. The estimated cost of implementing this network is around the 9 billion d...