Unlike its competitors, Iridium operates a constellation of 66 Low Earth Orbiting satellites, they are like …. Everywhere.

Travelling at speeds of 27,000 Kms per hr, this connected mesh of satellites can do a complete orbit of the earth in about 100 minutes.

No need to locate a fixed satellite with Iridium, just point the Phone’s Antenna to the sky and go!!!

The Iridium phones are the 9555, the 9575 Extreme and the Satellite to mobile phone Wifi HotSpot the Iridium GO.

Satellite Phone Warehouse with their Customer feedback and experience have placed a coverage icon to indicate the performance of these Sat Phones in Australia on each handset available.

Iridium's Coverage indicator across Australia.

Inmarsat operate the other GEO-Stationary network with 1 satellite that servers Australia which sits in the northern sky above Papua New Guinea.

Perth and Hobart are the furthest distances from this satellite with elevations of 42 and 53 degrees respectively, this is like double the elevation provided by the Thuraya network at its furthest points.

Due to this Satellite being more overhead to Australia our Customers’ feedback is that, “the Inmarsat coverage is good across the country including Tasmania”.

Inmarsat only has one phone available which is the IsatPhone 2.

Satellite Phone Warehouse with their Customer feedback and experience have placed a coverage icon to indicate the performance of these Sat Phones in Australia on each handset available.

Inmarsat's Coverage indicator across Australia.

Thuraya operate a GEO-Stationary network with 1 satellite that serves Australia which sits in the West North Western sky above Singapore.

The East Coast of Australia is the furthest distance from this Satellite and from Brisbane to Tasmania only averages an elevation of about 22 degrees which is very low. 

Hills and valleys will present coverage challenges to this South Eastern region of Australia and Tasmania however as you move to the West your coverage will improve considerably.

Satellite Phone operation is similar to that of those old Nokia phones we used to love.  A little like going back in time.

If there’s a funky feature WITH these phones other than making voice calls and sending SMS messages, is their ability to send their location co-ordinates to associates or love ones so they can track your travels with applications like Google maps.

The Thuraya Phones are the XT LITE, the XT PRO and the Satellite to Mobile Phone wifi hotspot the Thuraya SatSleeve.

Satellite Phone Warehouse with their Customer feedback and experience have placed a coverage icon to indicate the performance of these Sat Phones in Australia on each handset available.

Thuraya's Coverage indicator across Australia.