Satphones in the Simpson Desert.

Robert Hi, Having used My Inmarsat Pro. in most parts of Oz including The Simpson on numerous occasions, I would think that there would be a fault with Your Friends phone.
There is only one other reason that I can think of ??
I tried to use mine a few weeks back at Finke to no avail & thought that there was a fault. Yep there was! put the number in wrong.
Mike.

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Robert, Did the phone work anywhere else?

have had no issues with the INMARSAT SatPhone all over Oz- including Simpson, Anne Beadell, Canning, Cape York etc !!

Thanks for the feedback folks.

Yes. The phone was faulty.
It had worked poorly before a firmware update and then not at all.

sounds like the firmware update was not done correctly/diddnt work correctly
I know there was a recent upgrade considered mandatory for those who had much earlier versions loaded and recommended for those who had more recent versions on the isatphone pro and mandatory on the newer model hanset
I has an issue earlier this year when I did a test prior to a trip and had to update to get things going.
I had only ever previously had 1 update done since buying the isatphone pro when they first came out
unfortunately my annual trip for the simpson desert bike race came to an abrupt end last week when I suffered a heart attack and instead of a week in the desert at the end of september I will be recovering from open heart surgery.
cheers
howard