Maritime satcoms giant to be sold for US$3.4Bn
Inmarsat was formed in 1979 as the International Maritime Satellite Organisation and was floated by Apax Partners in 2005 on the London Stock Exchange.
Iridium ends legacy satellite service, switches all traffic to Next fleet
Desch said Iridium has “deboosted” 52 legacy satellites, a process that involves lowering their orbits to catch the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up.
New security flaw impacts 5G, 4G, and 3G telephony protocols
Researchers have described this new flaw as more severe than any of the previous vulnerabilities that affected the 3G and 4G standards.
Iridium Completes Historic Satellite Launch Project
Iridium Communications, in partnership with SpaceX, has deployed 75 new satellites into low earth orbit in under two years. The last 10 were launched in early January.
Iridium Unveils Availability of Certus Broadband Service for Terrestrial, Maritime Ops
“[Iridium Certus] will enable us to provide broadband connections to teams, vehicles and the important IoT ‘things’ that are in the 80-plus percent of the world that lacks cellular coverage,”
Why Facebook, SpaceX and Dozens of Others Are Battling Over Internet Access From Space
The next billion people who get connected to the Internet may be looking to the heavens. That’s where a race is on to provide online access from fleets of satellites, led by a who’s who of tech and several deep-pocketed startups.
Bosch Launches An IoT App Store To Bring AI Surveillance To The Mass Market
Gone are the days of aging CCTV cameras rusting on poles, piping feeds to control rooms where no-one is watching or to data warehouse systems ‘just in case’ something happens.