Satellite Phone Feedback

Dont know about your phone, but you will get some stick over your Name ? hope yours is not a 96 model?

be *VERY* careful doing it that way - call costs (from memory) using a non-sat sim card are MASSIVE (even compared to normal sat call costs!!!)

check it out - it may have changed - been a while since I looked

PS - while on sat phone topic - GSTAR have just launched 4 more sats that will be positioned over the next 4-8 weeks.

Calls made wiith a normal sim on international roaming through a sat phone are approx twice the cost of a normal Iridium call on my 9500 satphone. But in an emergency who cares?
Look around for s/hand phone, they can be picked up for considerably less.

TR Telecom is minimum 4 months for $30/mth or $15/mth in standby. They can match Telstra's price for the handset.

After the 4 months you can do what you wish with the handset.

cruiser,

Bride & I bought one through Telstra while the subsidy was still going. Cost $500 and are on a $50/month plan. Get $20 of calls free each month, so often we are only paying for the rental.

As we are in an isolated area, and our Telstra land line is often u/s, this s'phone has been a good buy. Also have a company Globalstar s'phone, and it's better to use, BUT you can rarely get a signal, and they are sudden-death with overdue accounts.

Have also used it at 2 vehicle incidents, one involving some injurys, so it has helped others as well.

Also now ready for the big trip, with some reliable?? communications.

Hooroo...

3G?, or do you mean gsm, only one will work. When GSM is phased out the word is Telstra will retune the system so that Next G will work in an 9505A phone, not for a while though.
Dean

i use a Thrane & Thrane notebook style jobbie via Inmarsat. Great unit, cost me $170 off ebay and I am not on a contract. Pay $2.60/min for phone calls so if I am not using it, I don't pay.

yeah it is abot 8 yrs old but does the job and did not cost me an arm and a leg.