Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 at 06:25
A 9555 is even better, it is a later model, but I doubt that you will get it for around $700. Maybe $1100 to $1200. If you get it for $700 you can sell it to me. for that price.
All Iridium / Motorola phones will take a Telstra Postpaid SIM with international roaming enabled. ( though the old 9500 must be the credit card size SIM). You can use your normal Telstra SIM but you will find that people call you and you are up for $4.00 per minute to see who is calling you. Best to go to Telstra, and
sign up for a non contract $10 plan and have international roaming enabled. That way you have a new number than you only tell to people you want to call you on the road. If you use a Telstra SIM you pay $4.00 for calls you make or reveive, it is like international roaming. People calling you pay a normal mobile charge.
An Alternative is to get a plan with someone like TR telecom. it is about $35 per month but you get half of that as a credit for calls. Outgoing calls are about $1.50 a min, and incoming calls are free. The big catch here is like almost all satellite plans other than the one above, callers pay $10 to $20 per minuite to call you.
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