Iridium Satellite gained the most subscribers it ever has in a si...
Iridium Satellite gained the most subscribers it ever has in a single month in August, signing up 8,150, it said. In an unsubtle swipe at Globalstar, beset by service quality issues from an S-band radiation anomaly (CD Sept 12…
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p15), Iridium CEO Matt Desch said Iridium has a “near-perfect connection rate and unmatched network quality.” In a separate announcement, Iridium said Asia Pacific region traffic has grown 50 percent compared to last year. Maritime traffic grew 22 percent, land-based traffic 26 percent, said Greg Ewert, Iridium executive vice president. Iridium signed distribution deals with Singapore’s Kemilinks International and Mongolia’s Monsat, it said. Monsat will be Iridium’s first distributor in Mongolia, Iridium said. Finally, Telstra will use Iridium phones as the satellite backup component in a communications system it’s building for the Australian Rail Track Corp., Iridium said.