ddrueding
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A buddy of mine is going to Africa and needs to rent a sat-phone. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Sat-phone for rental?
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Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
I haven't used SatPhones in at least 5yrs, but back then, any of the portable INMARSAT systems, (eg Nera World Phone) where quite good, excellent world wide coverage, and support voice, data (9600bps or 64K) and fax services. All phones (I used) came with international power adapters, and took anything from 100V up to 300V.
Put simple, any of the INMARSAT systems I used, "Just Worked".
Here is Oz, Telstra and Optus both offer regional Satcomm services, but not international services (AFAIK). For International, INMARSAT is the only choice.
PS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmarsat and http://www.inmarsat.com/
PPS. INMARSAT used to stand for INternation MARitime SATellite service.
Put simple, any of the INMARSAT systems I used, "Just Worked".
Here is Oz, Telstra and Optus both offer regional Satcomm services, but not international services (AFAIK). For International, INMARSAT is the only choice.
PS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmarsat and http://www.inmarsat.com/
PPS. INMARSAT used to stand for INternation MARitime SATellite service.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
ddrueding
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Found these guys...not as expensive as I thought...
adriel
Learning Storage Performance
I've used Iridium--reliable for single users. But the antenna doesn't stand up to multi-person usage--it tends to get rotated out of its cup by various users and I keep having to rotate and snap it back in. Not that rugged. If you dropped it in the extended position that plastic antenna would be done for.
I really hate INMARSAT. So unreliable, spent many sleepless days troubleshooting that system. Frequent block zones, frequent dropped calls... Quirky, buggy NERA handsets, needed to be reset often, pain in the ass to use. I do not recommend.
I really hate INMARSAT. So unreliable, spent many sleepless days troubleshooting that system. Frequent block zones, frequent dropped calls... Quirky, buggy NERA handsets, needed to be reset often, pain in the ass to use. I do not recommend.