UK satellite platform operator Inmarsat has continued its connectivity transformation by launching a global narrowband network for IoT connectivity, targeting the aviation, maritime and government sectors. This comes a month after the bolder step of starting to combine existing geosynchronous (GEO) satellites with low earth orbit satellites (LEO) and terrestrial 5G in an integrated platform called Orchestra, which it billed as its “largest ever transformation” for connectivity. The latest narrowband IoT service, called Elera, dovetails with this by providing lower speed connectivity for IoT applications, aimed at similar sectors requiring ubiquitous communications in places often beyond the reach of pure terrestrial cellular or LPWAN networks. Elera will launch in trial mode with aviation customers in 2022, using L-band spectrum in…