Iridium Go
Submitted: Tuesday, Feb 24, 2015 at 19:23
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Yabbo
My wife and I are about to hit the road in our camper trailer and land cruiser and I am interested in an Iridium Go. It seems like a good option to me as you don't need an extra Satellite handset, you simply use your iPhone via WiFi. Has anyone used one of these things? Does it work
well? I imagine that I'd fire it up occasionally and
check for SMS's from the family or others who want to contact me. Do they simply SMS my existing number, or do they need a separate number for the Go.
Any info would be appreciated.
Cheers
Yabbo
Reply By: Stephen_L - Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015 at 17:01
Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015 at 17:01
I recently purchased an Iridium phone. I looked at the Iridium go didn't think it suited my needs as an emergency phone.
Seems great if you want to use data for email etc but not as a phone for a quick emergency situation. Also in a emergency situation I don't really want to have to depend on two pieces of technology.
A normal iridium handset can simply get chucked in a backpack and off you go.
And for anyone who is interested. I can categorically state that you can still get a Telstra $10 sim and it does work with an iridium handset.
My sim arrived earlier this week and once international roaming was activated (after two attepmtps) it works fine.
But it was a bit of mucking around to get.
Cheers
Stephen
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Follow Up By: TomH - Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015 at 18:30
Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015 at 18:30
Tell us how as there was a recent thread that doubted the availability of the $10 sim.
Presumably it is a postpaid account and if so how long for.
When we were travelling I just took my sim out of my phone and stuck it in the Satfone never cost anything above the monthly plan cost I was on.
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Follow Up By: Stephen_L - Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015 at 19:36
Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015 at 19:36
Hi Tom
It was me that started that recent thread and using the advice that was provided in the thread I was able to get the SIM.
This is the thread
Essentially I had to call them because the Telstra stores know very little to nothing.
I told them what I wanted only to be told it doesn't exist, I told them it did and to please
check with someone who might know. Eventually someone was found who said it does exist
When it came time to process the request the operator couldn't find the plan in his computer and had to phone someone to find out how to process it, etc.... etc
eventually got it sorted then activated global roaming, received confirmation that it was active but still got invalid SIM so activated a second time and now everything works.
Alls
well that ends
well.
I know I can just swap the SIM from my usual phone which was my original plan but I found the process tedious, firstly my phone has a mini SIM so I had to use an adaptor because the iridium uses a full size SIM. Also getting the SIM out of my phone is really fidly, puting it in the Iridium is pretty easy however given that this phone is for emegrencies on a three month trip I figured I would get the SIM so me or my partner didnt have to mess about with SIM cards if one of us is lying in a heap having been bitten by a snake.
Cheers
Stephen
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Follow Up By: TomH - Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015 at 22:16
Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015 at 22:16
Ok so its $10 a month postpaid (on a plan) for how long.
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Follow Up By: dean ( SA ) - Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015 at 22:37
Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015 at 22:37
Well done Stephen L for persisting that Telstra poke around and find the $10 casual postpaid plan.
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Follow Up By: Stephen_L - Thursday, Feb 26, 2015 at 20:44
Thursday, Feb 26, 2015 at 20:44
@Tom - It's a $10 plan no contract leave whenever you want there was also no connection fee of any kind. Just a simple plan, as it should be.
@ Dean - thanks, sometimes it's worth the effort other times not.
Cheers
Stephen
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