Uninterrupted Connectivity: Satellite Phone Top-Ups
Ensuring your satellite phone is sufficiently topped up with enough airtime is a crucial part of satellite phone ownership. Topping up is a quick and easy way of optimising your sat phone’s usage. Without doing so will result in the inability to make voice calls or data connections while you’re travelling, something which is especially important to be able to do if operating within remote or far-flung regions. At GTC, we offer a wide range of top-up vouchers that can be applied to any leading satellite phone from the Iridium, Inmarsat, and Thuraya networks.
Global Coverage
The only way of achieving truly global coverage is by purchasing or renting an Iridium satellite phone with enough Iridium sat phone top-ups applied to it. Top-up vouchers are available in bundles of 100, 200, 300, 600, or 4,000 minutes. Each voucher comes with its validity period, meaning you must use all of the allocated minutes within that timescale to avoid losing your prepaid airtime. To help stop this happening, however, there is the option of purchasing 30-day validity extension vouchers which prolong your usage period by a month. If the validity period is not extended, your SIM card will expire and become unusable.
Flexibility And Control: Tailoring Satellite Phone Usage
The beauty of prepaid sat phone top-ups is you are fully in control. What are essentially pay-as-you-go contracts, top-up vouchers allow you phone usage as and when you need it. Unlike with a monthly rolling contract at a set amount, satellite phone top-ups act as a means of avoiding running up big monthly phone bills that you only find out about at the end of the month, or on the off-chance you check your balance beforehand. We highly recommend the top-up approach if your intended satellite phone use is a short-to-medium term. If your trip, adventure, or excursion is anything longer than six months to a year, we would recommend activating a monthly contract.
Seamless Operations: Enhancing Business Efficiency
A fully topped-up satellite phone or other satellite device such as a broadband terminal ensures continuous connectivity and a consistent means of remaining reliably in touch, something that is critical in a commercial setting in some of the world’s most isolated locations. Workers, for example, deployed to remote utility sites such as pipelines or power boxes may require the need for a satellite phone or satellite internet hardware. BGAN top-ups, for example, would ensure satellite internet connectivity and the ability to send messages such as emails or SMS from their remote location.
Emergency Preparedness: Secure Communication
A lot of the time it may seem like another routine excursion or trip to a far-off location, however, if venturing beyond the reach of traditional mobile connectivity, the need for a fully topped-up satellite phone is critical in case an emergency develops. With something like an ISatPhone 2, ISatPhone top-ups are required. Whereas Thuraya prepaid airtime can only be applied to Thuraya phones such as the XT LITE or X5 TOUCH, for example. A satellite phone is the communications bridge between you and key contacts back home or back at HQ in case the situation turns unexpectedly hazardous or even life-threatening.
Conclusion
Advising our customers is something we are always happy to do, and when it comes to relevant airtime, urging customers to opt for satellite phone top-up vouchers is something we will always recommend if their intended usage is only short-term. We would not recommend entering into a contract for anything shorter than a couple of months. We value the use of sat phone top-ups as a quick and easy way of staying reliably connected through the market’s leading satellite phones. Available in many different bundle versions per network provider, minutes and data can easily be applied to keep you in control of your device airtime expenditure at all times.
As always, our team of experts is here to help. So, if you need any advice about satellite phone top-ups, contact us via:
- Email: info@gtc.co.uk
- Phone: 0800 112 3919
