Satphone experiences...

I worked on one project that was quite mountainous and so the company decided we should have Sat phones so we would have communications. They didn't work 90% of the time + very expensive. We turned them back in and never used them. The company returned as unacceptable form of communications. We had to make sure that we let some others know were we were going to be at in case they had to come search for us if we got injured in the field. We had one guy that went down in the field in a bunch od downed timber but luckily he just scrapped himself up and made it back out on his own. We worked by ourselves most of the time and in some remote areas.