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Oh and yes I do have experience of Sat phones, have hired a few for events and in a previous life use to buy them for International Aid Agencies. If you really must, Iridium not Thurya. And yes data is a reasonable cost but hiring a satphone is at least £150 without even using it.

James -

Cutting to the chase.
If you had mission critical communications that HAD to work in the hills. - your life depended on it
What is the SINGLE piece of equipment YOU would personally choose to give the highest likelihood of comms in english/welsh mountain areas - are you saying it would be an iridium satphone or something else?

PS the sat hire websites seem to indicate that £70 a week with no hidden extras inc free delivery is the base price - an extra tenner for most risks insurance.

http://www.mobell.co.uk/satellite-phones/rent/
If the base price is 150 What are we not seeing here?

Not after an argument - just want to get the facts.

This probably needs its own thread. It is derailing SBB a bit, except in as far as Wheeze might decide these things have a role in the race.

The wider issue is less whether hire is economic for one race : rather it is whether the acquisition of a few to loan out to ROs in the difficult races/ comms areas makes economic sense when amortized over a couple of years, with a score of races each year: since the sums hint that can be a lot less than £1 per person per race is possible for fields of 100 or more . The hire of 3 for SBB (even on the assumption of £70 ea) is £2-3 per person which is too high on ongoing basis, except as one experiment to prove the technology works.