If you are trying to decide which rental phone best suites your needs, make sure that you notice all of the advantages to the Iridium phone rentals system. Iridium offers satellite phones that provide complete coverage all over the planet, including oceans, airways, and Polar Regions. This is especially useful if your occupation requires field work in remote places, such as mining, forestry, military/defense, and construction.
Iridium phone rentals have many benefits to their use other than simply the amount of coverage area. These benefits include flat usage rates with no long distance or roaming charges, omni-directional signals with no orientation necessary, and water, shock, and dust resistant compact handheld phones. In addition, the global service that Iridium offers enables you to send and receive voice and text messages, and data regardless of location. This information can be sent from an individual to an office, an office to an individual, and an individual to an individual. An optional Global Data Service that operates at 2.4 kps is available for data transmissions. However, this service requires some additional equipment.
Iridium phone rentals do not offer the prepaid service that is offered by many other companies. However, they do offer many affordable monthly and annual plans that contain a smaller number of minutes so that your money is not wasted on minutes that you will not use. Each plan has a service charge and a standard activation fee. The service charge varies on the amount of minutes in the plan. There is also a fee for any excess minutes that you use over the amount designated in your plan. This fee is a per minute fee. It is also possible to buy a basic service plan with no minutes and pay the overage fee for each minute that you use the phone. Depending on how many minutes that you use, this may be less expensive than actually purchasing a plan. In addition, each Iridium plan includes no roaming or long distance, free incoming text messages, and free incoming call for the Iridium subscriber.