Since the operational commissioning of the constellation Iridium NEXT (¹), the Iridium company has started to offer its new range of services called " Certus® ". These services are based on the considerably increased technological capabilities of the new satellites., which allowed, among others, to Iridium to be approved as a second satellite communications provider for the GMDSS maritime security service (²), whose competitor Inmarsat had held a monopoly for 1979.
Certus®, besides showing that American businessmen are also literate (³), is a range available in six bandwiths levels starting from 22 Kb/s up to 704 Kb/s, and up to 1408 Kb / s in the near future. Read more …
A new version of the firmware 2.1.22 is now available for the’Iridium GO!®. This release includes an update to correct an incorrect time and date issue for l’appareil Iridium GO!® and l’application GO!®. This issue results in incorrect time and date on device and app, which however does not affect the functionality of the device / application in any way. The calls, the data, SMS, SOS and tracking are still working normally. Only cases where a message (Fast gps, regular, SOS) contains a date / time, this will be incorrect. The order of messages in the Iridium GO application!® may not be observed, as well as missed voice calls. Upgrading the device to the new firmware version 2.1.22 will solve this problem.