Satellite Phone?
One of the most common questions we get is ”Can I text using my Iridium satellite phone?” The answer then is yes and no.
We will not recommend Web surfing using an Iridium satellite phone because of it features a 2.4 true kbps download speed. It truly isn’t fast enough, you see if you take that a standard home phone dial-up speed used to be 64 kilobytes per second, so at 2. 4 kbps you’ll be there all of the day.
So, you will see yourself waiting some time only for one website to appear. However Iridium create the opportunity so that you can have the ability to download packets, with a compression software that you can download from the Internet .
This is most commonly used by yachts or sailing people so they can download weather packets throughout their travels globally. This is why Jessica Watson, the famous youngest female solo yachts lady, who traveled round the world got her weather information .
The satellite phone is an ideal satellite phone to download or upload e-mails however Web surfing in our opinion is not recommended due to the download speeds.
The good news is that you have a system called BGan produced by Inmarsat, that allows you to use a satellite modem which weighs about about a kilo that you’ll be able to attach to your laptop anywhere on the planet and download at broadband speeds the Internet.
Charged using a megabyte download rate, depends on how much you must do, to the amount it costs. When you have to get satellite information back to base as opposed to wait for the period of time then BGan could be the way to go.
However it may be very common for sailors worldwide to work with Iridium 9555 handset as well as an external aerial and cable to have the confidence to download is compressed packets. Iridium use a software disk that is included with their satellite phone and a USB cable, which goes from the phone to your laptop and allows you access to Iridium web browser which you upload onto your laptop.
So in summary Iridium 9555 allows you to our download and upload e-mails competently. But for Web surfing or even the Internet we recommend the BGan broadband modem system. To learn more contact us@satellitephonesales.com. au to talk through what you can do and needs
