Iridium Communications provides mobile voice and data communications services and products to businesses, the United States and foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, and consumers globally. The company offers mobile satellite communications services for land mobile end users and aviation sectors.
Its portfolio also includes broadband terminals, embedded devices, and handsets for merchant shipping, fishing, leisure and research vessels, and specialized watercraft, satellite-based IoT services, hosted payload and data services, and data services and engineering services postpaid mobile voice and data satellite communications.
Its portfolio also includes prepaid mobile voice satellite communications, push-to-talk, broadband data, Internet of Things (IoT), and satellite time and location services. Additionally, it offers personnel tracking devices.
Its portfolio also includes asset tracking devices for equipment, vehicles, and aircrafts, beyond-line-of-sight aircraft communications applications, maritime communications applications, specialized communications solutions for high-value individuals, mobile communications and data devices for the military and government agencies, such as secure satellite handsets, and maintenance services for the U.S. government's dedicated gateway
Satellite handsets, voice and data modems, broadband data devices, and IoT data devices Various accessories for its devices that include batteries, holsters, earbud headphones, portable auxiliary antennas, antenna adaptors, USB data cables, and charging units.
The company sells its products and services to commercial end users through a wholesale distribution network that include service providers, and value-added resellers and value-added manufacturers.
Formerly known as Iridium Holdings LLC, the company rebranded as Iridium Communications Inc. in September 2009. Iridium Communications Inc. is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.