Pre paid Satellite Phone Australia and New Zealand Sim Card for the Iridium Satellite Phone System
Ideal for Australian outback travellers.
This card is geo-restricted. It can only be used within Australia and its territories, excluding Antarctica. For other areas, see our global access cards.
Includes 200 calling minutes and 6 months network access
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Iridium have announced that they are discontinuing this specially priced card and will not allow any new activations or top ups after 10th February 2017. This card must be activated on or before this date and will remain valid for 6 months after activation.
This sim card will work in any Iridium Satellite Phone model
Card can be activate on the date you specify either at time of ordering or later when you have decided. The activation date can be any weekday except public holidays before 31st December 2016
Billing Increments - 20 seconds
Cost to send an SMS - 33% of one minute
Cost to call another Iridium phone - 50% of one minute
Emergency 000\112 calls - Free
Calls to non-Iridium satellite phone - 900% of one minute
Unused minutes are forfeited at the end of the access period unless extra access time is added
Satellite Phone Handsets also available
See the Satellite Phone section of my ebay store for handsets, accessories and other sim card options
Also available in 50 minutes one month, 75 minutes one month, 75 minutes two months, 200 minutes 6 months, 500 minutes 12 months, 3000 minutes 24 months, 5000 minutes 24 months
Post Paid subscriptions also available - Please Inquire if interested
ABOUT THE IRIDIUM AND OTHER SATELLITE SYSTEMS
This phone uses the Iridum Satellite phone system. It is the only system that will work pole to pole any where in the world on land, sea or air.
Be careful of non-iridium systems - they can require larger equipment and power supplies. They also do not necessarily work all day and every where in Australia as satellites pass over. Sometimes you need satellite time maps to see what time the satellite is where and where to point your phone. None of this is a problem with Iridium.
Iridium phones are much simpler and more reliable. They will work anywhere any time as long as there is line of site to the sky. EG you cant be inside, under lots of trees or in a city amongst tall buildings that will block the signal. They may also have trouble working in gullies or valleys in mountain ranges where there is obscured line of site to the sky.
If you're buying a satellite phone for emergency purposes for a trip to the outback or a rural area and need to be able to make or receive a call immediately, Iridium is the way to go.