{"id":982,"date":"2025-11-21T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.gcsat.com\/?page_id=982"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:20:13","slug":"what-are-they","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gcsat.com\/index.php\/what-are-they\/","title":{"rendered":"What are they"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Satellite phones use a satellite network to provide connectivity globally and are useful where you need to keep in touch but do not have coverage by other networks. Being satellite based, they are more expensive to both buy and to use than mobile phones but they work where mobile phones don\u2019t.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Satellite phones will continue to work even when other terrestrial phone networks don\u2019t due to power failure or natural disasters. They are an essential tool if you are travelling to remote areas and need to be able to keep in touch especially in emergencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently only Inmarsat and Iridium offer coverage throughout Botswana.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=&#8221;Iridium&#8221; color=&#8221;primary&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fstage.gcsat.com%2Findex.php%2Firidium-satellite-phone%2F|title:Iridium%20Satellite%20Phone&#8221;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Inmarsat&#8221; color=&#8221;primary&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fstage.gcsat.com%2Findex.php%2Finmarsat-satellite-phone%2F|title:Iridium%20Satellite%20Phone&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Satellite phones use a satellite network to provide connectivity globally and are useful where you need to keep in touch but do not have coverage by other networks. Being satellite based, they are more expensive to both buy and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-982","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcsat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcsat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcsat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcsat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcsat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gcsat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/gcsat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/982\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcsat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}