Satphone on Telstra $10 plan-- options?

You are lucky, Telstra canned my $10 a month plan a couple of years ago. Put it up to $20 and then $25.

I used to have Telstra landline but switched to another provider when I got NBN.

Made no difference to Telstra billing for the mobile.

Good luck with the NBN. Some have trouble, mine was pretty straightforward.

Best advice is get on with it, don't leave it till deadline is near.

Cheers

We used to have the Telstra $10 plan without any other Telstra products but when I tried the sat phone last May it didn't work - I think I was able to accept calls but not make calls - I forget which. Instead I went and got the cheapest Pivotel plan. After my trip I just cancelled the plan. For $50/month it was worth it considering we only needed the sat phone for a couple of months compared to the $120/year for the Telstra plan. BTW we didn't use the Telstra sim card for anything but the sat phone - call costs were too high.
cheers

Just went and tested my 9555 which is on the $10/mo plan. Test call to my mobile went through fine.

I have no other services with Telstra. The landline was dumped over 12 months back (when NBN-FTTN became available), but was never on the same account as the satphone. Just sits there being auto-direct-debited to a credit card each month.

Re NBN-FTTC - when you migrate your broadband and "landline", I would not be first-kid-on-the-block to move across, but don't leave it till the last thing either. Each of their units in the pits will support four services. Once the first one is established you know its working and that's when I'd migrate. Keep in touch with your neighbours.

TBH I'd not consider using Telstra for NBN due to cost and their offshore support. I realise that you are hesitant to depart Telstra because of the satphone. That's understandable.

Hi Silkwood, We use our Telstra mobile SIM in our sat phone, if you have international roaming set up it works fine, call costs aren't cheap so we only use it in an emergency.

Len