alcohol Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 My daughter is going somewhere in West Africa to work for the Peace Corps and my wife and I would like to maintain easy communications with her. Question is - are there cell phones or Palm Pilot types of devices that can communicate across continents? If I could get any advice on this it would be greatly appreciated. "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality." [Dante Alighieri] (1265-1321) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wewus432 Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 Hey alchi: The big player in satellite phones appears to be [url=http://www.globalstar.com/view_page.jsp?page=coverage]GlobalStar[/url] . As you can see they only cover parts of N. Africa though. If they don't have coverage where she's going maybe they could tell you who does. Here's another link, look a little ways down the page and you'll see a contact for [url=http://www.africanconnection.org/links.cfm]Africa Satellite Corporation[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddynl Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 Mine is working globally as long as there is a cell phone network. I use a nokia 6210, which is a dualband and automaticly finds the network available. So the only thing you need to find out is if there is a cellphone network in that specific country. If there is you just need a cellphone capable of doing what mine is doing (you need DUALBAND) and ofcourse a provider which has worldwide contracts. hope this helps. Fred gigging favorites at the moment LP Special order 1973 and PRS custom 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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