Hi all

I have just sailed from New Zealand to Tasmania, Australia and found the
Iridium coverage to be attrocious. No signal about 70% of time and then
when we got a connection drop out was over 90%.
Also friends who tried to call us have complained of high charges ($10 to
$15) for calls that were not connected.

Fair winds

Graeme

"Wayne.B" wrote:

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:07:58 -0400, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:
I rent an Iridium when sailing the Eastern Caribbean and it has not
failed me yet.

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What kind of data rate do you get with Iridium? Do you dial up an
internet connection or do they have a data/IP mode?