Thursday, Oct 01, 2015 at 12:38
Good information.
I did do this in the past, but found it too much of a hassle / inconvenient, but for others this will depend on how they use/carry their sat phone.
I keep the sat phone in a backpack which we use when doing walks in a national park or down to a
gorge, etc - and as our "the cars on fire, just get out now" emergency pack. The mobile meanwhile is mounted in a cradle in the vehicle and used for navigation and to receive messages and calls on the go (when in range/towns).
Swapping the sime every time we went for a walk - or remembering to take the pack and the mobile (for the sim) if we had to get out of the car in an emergency was problematic.
I kept forgetting to either put the sim into the sat phone each time we went walking (making the sat phone useless), or forgetting to take it out of the sat phone and put it back into the mobile when we returned - meaning we missed receiving mobile messages/texts/emails when in a town, or I received them on the sat phone and racked up charges for it.
One other annoyance, is that the sim card size in the mobile and the sat phone are different, which meant having to use one of the sim adapters - which I found very fiddly to line up and insert into the sat phone.
For us, the $10/month plan was cheap for the convenience it provided.
For others with a different use though, your suggestion is a very good one.
John
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