Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:00
Hi Laurie No Telstra/Iridium, always have been.
Maybe your thinking of Jumbo's phone as she has Global$hit or the clubs sat phone perhaps??
Cheetah, Telstra uses towers for its terrestrial (land based) phone networks either the 3 G or the Next G networks.
As good as the Next G network is it certainly does not cover 100 percent of the country and Telstra has never claimed it does.
Your comments "A mate met a serious accident just out of
Barrow Creek a while back, no reception on mobile phones so he pulled out his Telstra sat phone. NO go mate, nothing. How convenient, luckily no one died waiting for help"
Are suggesting that he did not have reception on his "Telstra Sat Phone"??
This phone would most likely be an Motorola phone on the Iridium Satellite Network as Telstra are a reseller of Iridium
services just like AST, no difference between AST Iridium and Telstra Iridium
services as they use the same sat system, the "Iridium" satellite network.
(Price maybe a different matter between service providers)
Maybe you should ask your mate exactly what brand of satellite phone he was using as unless it was "broke" the Telstra/AST/whoever reseller of Iridium
services is the most reliable satellite service in the country with the best coverage.
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