Road Service Numbers from sat phones
Submitted: Saturday, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:00
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Member - Howard (ACT)
After an incident last week where we were trying to arrange for a a towtruck I have become aware that you cannot access 13 or 1800 numbers from a sat phone. we tried from both global star and irridium
services.
For information of NRMA members their land line number for road service call centre is 02-87416000
you may like to record in your essential number list for when travelling remote
The party involved were also unable to contact their insurer until we got back to a town with next g service as the insurer also only listed a 1800 number.
It would seem these call centres bar calls from sat
services. interestingly a call from the same phone number when in next g mode was accepted.
cheers
Howard
Reply By: olcoolone - Saturday, Jun 20, 2009 at 14:39
Saturday, Jun 20, 2009 at 14:39
We don't provide alternative numbers for overseas calls but we don't deal overseas.
The should give you another standard number as all the 13,1800 and 1300 are linked to a conventional number.
These numbers are very powerful is used properly, we can restrict numbers from local, std and mobile as
well as blocking areas we don't want or diverting to another number for an area.
We will have try our satellite phone that is on Optus and is an Australian service only.
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