Space News by Caleb Henry — September 17, 2019
Iridium and OneWeb, two companies pursuing different types of telecommunications businesses from low Earth orbit, said Sept. 17 that they would work together on a combined service offering.
The companies signed a memorandum of understanding at Iridium’s annual partner conference in Coronado, California.
Iridium CEO Matt Desch has long said that his company’s 66-satellite constellation doesn’t compete with broadband startup OneWeb because the companies use two different frequencies.
“It will be pretty rarely that people will look and try to pick one over the other for an application, because we both specialize where we specialize,†Desch told SpaceNews Sept. 17.
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