— Total billable subscribers grew 16% year-over-year, driven by growth in commercial and government IoT customers.
— Commercial service revenue rose by 8% helped by increased revenues from IoT and hosted payload and other data services. Commercial voice and data subscribers were up 1% from the year-ago period to 371,000 subscribers.
— Commercial voice and data average revenue per user was $48, up from $47 last year, as a result of growing usage associated with new activations of Iridium Certus terminals.
— Looking ahead into the full year 2019, the company expects total service revenue in the range of $445 million to $450 million, up from the previous forecast of about $440 million.
— The operational EBITDA is now predicted to be about $330 million in 2019 compared to the prior outlook range of $325 million to $335 million.
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