Iridium Openport, which powers Iridium Pilot. Photo: Iridium

[Via Satellite 06-05-2015] Iridium has signed a strategic partnership with Seoul, South Korea-based Arion Communication to distribute Iridium mobile satellite communications services and products in South Korea. Arion, a specialist in maritime, aviation and land-mobile navigation and communications equipment, will resell Iridium Pilot, Iridium GO!, Iridium Extreme and the Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) service. Through the Iridium partnership, Arion will be providing worldwide Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication coverage to global companies based in South Korea.