Satellite Phone Users, School Me

[olds]

I r confused. This phone (all Sat phones?) is an International phone.

If I dial from a satellite phone to a land based phone in the US, I have to dial 00.
If I call the Sat phone from a land phone, I have to dial 011.
If I call another Sat phone from a Sat Phone, I dial 011.

Is this correct?

I am confused about why/when 00 or 011.

 

[pm]

I'd have thought it was "00" for everything. Not "011". 011 is to call another country from a US landline or cell phone...

In my extremely limited experience with satellite phones (I've made exactly two calls ever on a sat phone and both were a really long time ago), it was 00+country code+ number. So to call England, you'd dial 0044<number> - where 44 is the code for England. To call the US, you'd be 001<number> - because the 1 is the country code for the US (the advantage of creating the system I guess)

 

[Mark R]

00 is the international dial-out code for all phone systems (except US). Dial this when you need a dial a phone in a country different to the one you are calling from (for the purposes of this description, a satellite phone network counts as its own country).

011 is the dial-out code from within the US.

You have to dial "00" on the sat phone when dialling to a phone on a different system, or a phone attached to a specific country. If you were calling another sat phone on the same system, I would expect you could just dial the number - but I've never had to do this.

 

[Hugo Drax]

On my inmarsat I only have +1(xxx)xxx-xxxx for US numbers in the memory. Nothing extra.

But when I call my Inmarsat number shows up as an international number to the user.

 

[olds]

Thanks guys. The phone is at work so I will check it out monday.