Iridium Starts Live-Testing Its Certus Satellite Broadband Service

Iridium began live testing its L-band broadband Iridium Certus service on its operational Next satellites, the company said Thursday. It said it plans to make Certus commercially available in Q2 and will be capable of speeds of up to 1.4 Mbps. It said Certus terminals are being built by several manufacturers, and live on-orbit testing of the terminals will be done as they're ready.