Angel,
Thanks so much for your expertise. I am still so slow in reading spanish
that I am not following the honduran papers, and I really appreciate the
information you have.
I imagined that the satphone would work pretty much like a gps, in terms of
having nothing between your unit and the satellite and even clouds are a
problem.
Thanks again,
Sabine
>From: "Angel Castillo"
>Reply-To: travel-to-honduras.....com
>To:
>Subject: [travel-to-honduras] Satphones
>Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:45:18 -0600
>
>www.iridium.com
>
>That's the Sat phone with 100% global coverage and it's the one I know the
>most. They can tell you there the phone cost, plans and dealers.
>
>About the future of cellphone service, I know that both cellphone operators
>in Honduras have complete coverage in the large cities, and the
>second-large
>ones. CLARO then headed out to cover the smaller towns with cellphone and
>fixe-wireless phone service. TIGO followed suit and is now reaching every
>little town they can come across, I just read on the newspaper today they
>were doing a notary announcement for a tower installation somewhere in
>Lempira. That's pretty out there in the boonies! So in the not so distant
>future unless you are hiking some remote mountain or in the Mosquitia
>Jungle
>you'll probably have cellphone service from either operator.
>
>One drawback to satphones is that you have to be outdoors to use them, or
>hook up an outside antenna , etc. Unlike cellphones which can be used
>indoors and outdoors. Also they are BIG, and require a few tries sometimes
>to get a call thru, plus they are affected by weather and once the call is
>connected it has a delay since it goes from the satphone to satellite to
>satellite to a ground station and then off to the destination phone.
>
>If there is no other choice though (like out in the ocean , or in the
>jungle) it's a lot better than nothing.
>
>Angel
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