Iridium's Certus Broadband Service To Launch in Q2 2017

Iridium's Certus L-band satellite broadband service will be commercially available in Q2 2017, the satellite company said in a news release Tuesday. The company said Certus eventually is aimed at supporting a variety of services targeting particularly maritime, land mobile, aviation and government applications, and will be based on Iridium's Next low earth orbit constellation scheduled to begin launching this summer. Once fully deployed, Certus will offer speeds of 1.4 Mbps, Iridium said.