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Originally Posted by Przemolog
For coverage reasons Iridium + quad band GSM would be the best  |
For some reason, I'm not impressed by the combination of cellular and satellite in a single handset. It didn't go over well in the original Iridium phones. I don't think anyone is going to lug a ~1kg handset around town when he can just pop the SIM into a GSM phone the size of a snuff box.
For my part, I'd be happy if Iridium just reopened GSM roaming for those of us who own a handset but have little need to keep an account active. At the same time I understand how Iridium would see no advantage in doing this, since many people who do keep accounts just for emergencies would drop them and fall back to roaming.