Sat phone Next G sim card

Thanks, how do you enable international roaming?

By contacting Telstra.

No cost to invoke it but of course, the cost of International calls are more expensive as 3rd party Telco's become involved.

Telstra has an arrangement with various Telco's in different Countries.

Thanks Sand Man.

If you are overseas dont forget also that many overseas Telco's charge you for air time. So if smeone calls you you still pay for the time you are on the call. Not like here when the caller pays

Thanks Bonz, can't see me heading overseas in the near future but will certainly keep that in mind.

Not just 'air time' charges when overseas.

If someone from Oz calls you while you are overseas, that caller still only pays mobile call charges for the local content part (i.e. the call within Oz). The international part of the call - to get it to wherever you are in the world - is paid by you. I.e. you pay for incoming calls as well as any outgoing calls you make yourself. (If someone in the same country as you calls you, they have to dial internationally to Oz, where the call is diverted and sent back overseas, and you again pay for the overseas component to return the call to your location (even if you are standing 5 feet away from each other).

When roaming internationally, the safest bet to avoid a very surprising bill when you get home is to set your call diversions on, so all incoming calls go straight to voicemail. You can then pick up the messages a lot cheaper than taking the call, and decide if a return call is warranted.

Sms is still an inexpensive way to communicate when overseas.
I got caught out taking my Nokia 3210 gsm roaming enabled.
This phone is not multifrequency and wouldnt work in Nth America.
Borrowed a locals ancient spare phone and used my own sim card.
Prior to that I thought I could pick up a cheap local phone. But many new phones dont have a removeable sim card anymore and you have to go on a plan.
Hope that doesnt happen here.

Thanks Motherhen.

Telstra says CDMA is being switched off in Jan 08 (18th??) so unless there is a last minute extension you only have a few weeks of use left.

Excellent Thanks SAV