Iridium GO Satellite WiFi HotSpot
The Iridium GO Satellite Wi-Fi Hotspot runs on the Iridium satellite network and provides your devices with satellite phone call and data capabilities.
The Iridium GO is great for voice calls, plain text emails, GRIB file weather reports, the odd photo attachment – and even has GPS/tracking and SOS.
However note that, at only around 24kbps Iridium GO’s narrowband satellite data connection is extremely slow and useless for web browsing.
That said, it comes with a very nice e-mail app called Mail and Web which is great for sending and receiving plain text emails and attachments.
Up to 5 different users can install the Iridium GO apps on their smartphones, for simultaneously sending and receiving emails via Iridium GO.
All the smartphones connected to Iridium GO can make voice calls, just not simultaneously. Incoming calls ring on all phones for anyone to answer.
We offer an All-You-Can-Eat subscription for Iridium GO which is great for 1, even more so if you’re going to be sharing you GO with others.
Being a device that runs on the Iridium network, it will work anywhere on earth including seas, airways, mountains, and the polar regions.
Download the Iridium GO Brochure.
Charles Brookson –
Always wonder about the risks as an early adopter!: Got one of these and have used the Android applications, registered for a @myiridium.net Email address and followed the instructions to download the Go! Application, Email and Web and XWeb (Firefox). Found when I changed the password on Email it did not change for receive, so I had to erase and reload Email. You can arrange for it to collect Email from other accounts, or just forward to your address.
Now all is working well. I can send SMS, GPS positions, Email, Facebook (with pictures), Twitter and get weather reports. A few rough edges but it all works …… although it is quite slow – which is my only gripe with it at present. However I’ve heard Iridium may give the GO a bandwidth upgrade on its new network launching in 2016.
The ordering process and support was very good from Ashbury Satcomm.
Peter Owens –
Bought one of these as the iSatHUb does not work at sea. I knew Iridium GO! is MUCH slower than the iSatHub but for a skipper out at sea with limited data usage that wasn’t much of a concern for me. We installed the GO with a mast mounted antenna above deck and the Iridium GO below deck. This cost us far less than an Iridium phone with docking station would have cost, and we can all use the GO wirelessly from our mobile phones. The Iridium apps for sending texts and makign voice calls are quite nice too.