SATELLITE PHONE QUESTION

Enable International roaming and try again??

Yes they do work on a 9500, must be on a plan/account(not prepaid), have international roaming enabled by Telstra (can take a while depending on the "consultant" you get when you ring them).
Of course you have to have the whole old style card, use sticky tape to hold the sim back in the surround.

i've had mine 9505 with plan & int. roaming for near 12 months now & it still come up as INVALID account so i don't know what else i can do unless you have to be on the higher plans????????


Cheers,


Bob.

Hi all
thanks for input I will refer back to our local shop with these suggestions I will put an update on later
cheers reggy2

Hi reggy 2,
Invalid Account on an Iridium is a sign of either a SIM from a non-Telstra or non-Iridium partnered supplier or a SIM setup incorrectly.

Basically in Australia you need a Telstra SIM definitely Not Pre-Paid and with absolutely everything enabled.

If the SIM is banned from Any service by Helstra you'll get the Invalid Account error.

Don't tell anyone but I bought a SIM card reader-writer off eBay complete with software and cloned my Helstra SIM so that I don't have to swap the SIM back and forth between the terrestrial and the satellite networked phones.

All I need to do is ensure one is either switched off or out of range when the other sparks up and life is easy. If they both joined the network at the same time Helstra would immediately lock the account.

Geoff