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Orbcomm, Immarsat Team To Tackle Machine-To-Machine Solutions Market

Gally Articola

Monday, November 18th, 2013

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Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions provider Orbcomm [ORBC] and satellite communications services provider Inmarsat are teaming to take advantage of what they called the rapidly growing M2M market with a goal of creating a standard satellite-based global M2M network. Orbcomm and Inmarsat will work together to create a standard satellite platform and develop cost-effective hardware and flexible service pricing models for the global M2M industry, according to an Orbcomm statement. Orbcomm is building a series of interchangeable modems powered by the company’s OG2 very high frequency…

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