Iridium, Speedcast Partner on Land-Mobile Service

Iridium and Speedcast have signed a deal for Speedcast to add the Iridium Certus service to its Atlas portfolio of offerings targeting the land mobile market, such as real-time vehicle tracking, internet, phone and data transfer, Iridium said Tuesday. It said the two companies already partner on global maritime services. It said testing of the Certus service, provided via the Next constellation, is underway and it will be rolled out commercially via a series of service classes.