Sat phone call costs

Sat on the phone to telstra and found some info .

If you go on a plan for around $30 . you pay $1.45 per 30 sec with a flag fall of 45c

same for calling mobile and other sat phones .

Some companies had a cheaper rate for calling land lines , but very expensive call costs from sat phone to sat phone

You can however put international roaming on your GSM sim card and use it in your sat phone , but to a cost of $2 per 30 seconds . Thats $4 a min but you will also pay for the people who call you .

So your phone has cost you $360 a year with no calls devide $360 by 4 min thats 90 min talk time . Sat phone to sat phone is $6.37 a min is 57 min talk time. I would say that your sat phone calls would be min , so you can assume you would get 75 min normal talk time.

If I did go on a plan , I would have payed $360 for the year + 90 min talk time at $2.90 a min ($261) My total would be $621 .

Now i aw a site with pre paid card for $135 for 75 min talk time and 150 min over 2 months for $270 . I see it as a very cheap alternative ..

The site is here
if anyone else had info , I would be happy to hear from them .

Regards EC