Sending a text message to an Iridium service

Putting a NextG SIM in a 9505 makes it behave totally differently to a conventional Satphone service.

It hehaves more like a Telstra Mobile - just use the normal national number for voice or SMS.

"041x xxx xxx" or "02 xxxx xxxx".

I've got the same sat phone, but still using my GSM card in it (not a NextG card).

Are you trying to send an SMS to your sat phone, or send an SMS from your sat phone to another mobile ?

To send a message to my sat phone - ie: to test it out, I just send the message to my normal 0401...... mobile number.

To send a message out from my sat phone, I have to use the international dialling prefixes that leave off the leading zero from the number of the moble I'm sending the mesage to.
ie: 0011 61 401.... if the mobile is an 0401.... number.

As said though, that's using my GSM card.

Hopefully the info helps a bit................

John

Both the GSM and Next G SIM's must be Telstra and both must have International Roaming actiivated.
You can also send an SMS to the actual Iridium SIM through the Iridium website, not the mobile SIM's.

Thanks also Mike and John - once I found a Telstra mobile to send the SMS to the Iridium service everything worked as you said it would. I'd originally tried it with my wife's mobile, and she is with Optus.

George_M