Monday, Jul 25, 2011 at 13:24
MH, the network is overseas. The various providers are all O/S based as
well. The outgoing call rates from the phone are reasonable at 70c per minute but don’t try calling it from any form of phone in Australia (including other Inmarsats) as the rates are astronomical. Cheaper for the phone user to contact you. You can send a free SMS to the phone through the Inmarsat website but even these have a habit of disappearing into the ether.
I’ve been trying to keep in contact with EO members JayDub, Equinox and Phil B who are currently in the wilds of the
Great Sandy Desert and I’m pretty sure that very few of the messages I’m sending are arriving at their intended destination.
I recently bought a new Motorola 9555 through Pivotel. I’m on the $35 plan and the phone performed
well on the trip over the last two weeks. There were occasional dropouts but that could have been from the user end as Queen Vik was calling from her mobile. We’re just waiting for the Optus
home phone bill to see if the calls made from the landline fitted into our Optus “bundled” plan.
Having been bitten by the Globalstar fiasco, I’m just a little wary of the Inmarsat phone at present. Jaydub will be able to give us a more considered evaluation on his return. He is running his Motorola 950 side by side with the new unit.
Cheers Mick
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