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Originally Posted by Simi 60
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It also is waaaaaay more expensive and primarily targeted at people very far offshore using it for grabbing weather data. $60/month for 5 minutes of data, and texts are charged at $0.25/text. The next tier up is $105 and includes free texts and more stuff, but that's quite a bit more expensive.
Iridium's tracker function is also more complex and less frequent. You have to turn it on with their software, and it uses your SMS quota to send them out every hour (highest frequency from what I remember during my testing) so you really need the $105/month plan to make it work.
Spot and inReach are much cheaper monthly, and inReach offers a way to turn their plans off for months throughout the year if you're not cruising. I think I pay $20-30 a month for my inReach plan and get something like 100-200 texts a month as part of that, plus unlimited tracking.
Based on one the OP was looking for in terms of text messages and tracking, the Iridium Go doesn't seem like a perfect fit....