Local Phone Numbers for Inmarsat / Iridium

If you want to receive incoming phone calls to a phone connected to your BGAN terminal, a local number from almost any city and country makes it easy for people to reach you. Satellite phone numbers are often blocked, or have exorbitant rates when making international calls to your satellite phone number. A local number makes communication simple and far less expensive for the caller.

Your phone number is a long, 14- or 15-digit international number that looks like this: 011870772626744. This can be confusing. Add to that most phone and cellular companies simply block international calls or charge exorbitant calling rates as high as $10 per minute, and it’s not hard to see why adding a local number to your satellite phone may be essential.

• Have a second ‘local’ number for your satellite phone.
• Callers won’t have trouble calling because their phone provider ‘blocks’ international calls.
• Callers are not charged international rates for calling since they are calling a local number.
• A ‘local’ satellite phone number is seen as a typical looking number and not intimidating.
• A web interface lets users point the local number to any satellite phone at any time.
• The web interface provides access to detailed call records instantly; you may set up auto-reports, too.
• Management tools allow you to add any number of satellite phones to your account.
• You can use your cell phone number and receive calls over satellite using call forwarding.

We recommend checking out all of the features this portal has to offer. Some of these features are:

1. Adding daily, weekly, or monthly auto-reports for invoicing.
2. Creating a blocklist of barred incoming phone numbers.
3. Create a pin number so that incoming callers needed to secure the phone.
4. Call details that show usage on any phone for any period.

Want more information? Have questions? Please write to us at sales@groundcontrol.com and we’ll be happy to help.