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Iridium and
Arion Announce
Partnership to Offer
Iridium(R) Satellite
Products and Services in
South Korea
June 4, 2015
Iridium
Communications Inc. and
Arion Communication Co.,
Ltd., announced a
strategic partnership in
which Arion will
distribute Iridium
mobile satellite
communications services
and products in South
Korea. Arion will be
offering its
customers—including
government/military,
aviation, maritime and
enterprise
organizations—the
benefits of the Iridium
network, which delivers
reliable voice and data
communications, anywhere
on the planet—even polar
regions.
As part of the
agreement, Arion will be
reselling Iridium Pilot,
powered by Iridium's
OpenPort® broadband
service, which provides
the industry's only
pole-to-pole mobile
wireless coverage for
ships at sea. It will
also be selling Iridium
GO!, the world's first
truly global smartphone
access device; the
rugged, weatherproof
Iridium Extreme® handset;
and the Iridium Short
Burst Data (SBD)
service. Through the
Iridium partnership,
Arion will be providing
worldwide M2M
communication coverage
to global companies
based in South Korea.
"We are
especially excited about
the opportunity to offer
Iridium Pilot and
Iridium SBD for reliable
vessel monitoring
systems to our
customers," said Tony
Park, CEO, Arion
Communication. "Safety
is of vital concern to
every organization we
work with, so it is
important that we offer
the most reliable
products and services
for their critical
communications. With
Iridium, we can deliver
this today. And we are
looking forward to
offering them the many
benefits of the Iridium
NEXT satellite
constellation when it
comes online in the
future."
Iridium NEXT,
the company's
next-generation
satellite constellation,
is scheduled to begin
launching in late 2015.
It will enable the
Iridium CertusSM broadband
service, which will
deliver versatile,
enterprise-grade,
reliable communications
and support a portfolio
of partner products with
a broad range of data
speeds eventually as
high as 1.4 megabits per
second for a single user
terminal. The Iridium
NEXT constellation
deployment is scheduled
for completion in late
2017.
"We are excited
to welcome Arion as an
Iridium partner as it is
experiencing tremendous
growth in markets that
can benefit from our
products and services,"
said Bryan Hartin,
executive vice
president, sales and
marketing, Iridium. "We
look forward to working
with Arion to enable the
company's continued
expansion."
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