inmarsat Sat Phone

Check out thread 88732

This was discussed recently Maybe some information there


Cheers Teza

Yes they work well, but the price is$50.00 to much ring them direct and don't mention show's.

It depends on whether you want it just to make regular phone calls, or if you are going remote and want to have sat phone for emergencies. Read the previous thread - you cannot call emergency 000, or most 13 or 1800 numbers at all. If using for an emergency, you will need to know the full number of the service you want to call, including international prefix. A tall ask if your car has rolled or you have a life threatening emergency and you have to find and scroll through a long pre prepared list or a phone directory to find the number to call for an ambulance in that area. That too may be difficult as ambulance services only advertise 00. Police Australia wide use 131444 which again won't work, so you'd need to have done research to find the local numbers to call too just in case needed.

Motherhen

Patrol Hi,
In my opinion that is a good deal.
Used mine extensively on a recent trip from Bris to Canning Stock Route plus a bit more. Logged on every day without any problems, as I used the Bluetooth facility never had drop out problems.
The charging is for the actual time used not in blocks of minutes. When my family wanted to contact me they sent an email & when I logged on at days end called them back The email is a great feature of the system .
You can buy an extra 100 units to keep on standby (life 20 years plus 2years expiry).In my opinion pre paid is the better option.
Like Holdens & Fords your are going to get different opinions .
Regards Mike.

We have just travelled the great central road, sandy blight track, Garry junction road and ,Garry highway, canning stock route from well 33 up across the Buchanan and buntine highways, the Barkley highway back to Sydney we had a family member in hospital while we were away and were making phone calls to home every 2nd day we had no problems,one of our party broke down on the canning and we rang Alice springs and receivedd advice and ordered parts no problems.If you look at there website they list the emergency numbers you will need to ring in each state which you can put in a separate folder emergency numbers which luckily we didn't have to use.We had a need to ring hawai while we were away I rang tc communications office and the staff could,t have been more helpful.They rang back to make sure we got through alright.So as you can see I would highly recommend the phone.