Monday, Jul 02, 2012 at 14:42
Mark
You may not like this but ever since
satellite phones were on the market it has been widely known that they cost heaps. Personally I would have asked the cost before ringing.
When we got our
phone we only gave the number to our closest friends and immediate family. And we also sent them the following brief:
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To call us on our
satellite phone:
• If you are inside Australia: Dial 00118707764*****
• If you are outside Australia: Dial 008707764*****
To send us an SMS:
Send the SMS in the same way as you would to any
phone. Just remember the cost will be higher than standard mobile to mobile SMS costs.
To send us an Email:
You can send an email to us for free at: 8707764*****@message.inmarsat.com.
Costs:
For YOU to call Us and actually call and speak to us YOU pay HEAPS for the
Satellite phone call cost. It can be quite expensive at more than a dollar a minute. But remember we will most likely have the
phone on only in the evening after about 7:30.
The cheapest way to get a message to us is to use an email. It's free for you lot but not us.
Note also that we cannot call “000” or any 1800 or 13 numbers from the
satellite phone.
See you when we get
home. DO NOT GIVE THE NUMBER TO ANYONE OTHER. The emergency mobs can have it whenever they ask or need it. No one else will ned it.
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I would be jumping on them a bit for not letting you know the costs when they told you the number.
I believe that the costs have gone up since I first drafted the above note. So I will have to update the brief. Of course I have deleted some private information and itinerary stuff from the brief and it is not as complete as the real printed one for the rellos.
So far since July 2011 we have made two very brief
phone calls and sent about twenty GPS position emails and received about the same number of emails. As I said with our mob it's no news = good news.
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