Tuesday, Jun 01, 2010 at 08:08
Well thank you for that
The sim card CANT be a PREPAID Ive tried one and it doesnt work Gives
invalid account.
As there are only prepaid or plans I guess it will be on a plan.
The last and only call I made cost $3.77 fo a 1 minute call
As said above The Iridium phones simply CANT work on the cell network.
Asking in a Telstra
shop about them is like hitting your head against a wall.
Its nice when it stops.
They know NOTHING about them as proved by a friend the other day so you are simply wasting time asking Telsta anything
IF you have one dont tell them anything Bung a sim in it and away you go.
It seems they are marketed through Telstra Country who are almost inaccessable to the public.
They will tell you a sim in a 9505a wont work IT DOES
Also I found my friends who were Vodafone and Optus users couldnt send me
a text from their phones but I could send to them, something to be considered.
You pay for calls inward as
well as the caller pays a normal cell charge and you pay for the diversion to the IRIDIUM network.
The reason they work is that Telstra have a billing agreement with Iridium and the other providors dont.
There is a new providor called Pivotel but dont know anything about them other than you need a plan with them.
There are other phones that will work on the cell network and satellite
Thuraya??? and the old Ericssons that were on Globalstar did but the
satellite only worked on fine fridays on the odd months of the year if you get
what I mean.
Have had
mine for 2 years as an emergency phone and it has worked whenever or wherever I wanted it to.
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