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May 24, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Satellite phones, two-way satellite text messaging and BANDWIDTH solutions explained
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Welcome, everybody, to this special BrightTown.com broadcast about the satellite phone store and solutions during this global time of emergencies to this special BrightTown.com broadcast about the satellite phone store and solutions during this The Satellite Phone Store has been an ongoing sponsor of my Situation Update podcast as well as Brighteon.tv.
And the reason we love them as a sponsor is because they have these solutions today.
We're going to talk with Tina.
She's a representative, Tina Blanco, of the Satellite Phone Store.
And she's going to walk us through the satellite phones, the BGAN bandwidth, the satellite bandwidth solutions, as well as the two-way text messaging using what are called Bivy Sticks.
And so I want to welcome Tina and also Steve Quayle to the broadcast here to talk about these solutions.
Tina, it's great to have you on today.
Thank you for your support and thank you for sharing your time with us today.
Yeah, thank you so much, Mike.
I really appreciate and I really appreciate you inviting me to give out the information and educate the audience on a lot of the satellite communications and why it's needed.
Well, absolutely.
I appreciate your time and the solutions you've been offering.
And I also want to welcome Steve Quayle to the broadcast today.
Steve, I know you've been a longtime supporter of the Satellite Phone Store, and I want to thank you in advance for your commentary and tips and everything that you're going to bring in with us today.
Well, thank you, Mike.
And again, it's exciting for me to be doing this at this time because, you know, almost a decade ago, Tina and I had the talk about the necessity for this very time that normal communications were going to fail.
And that was during, you know, some really dangerous times.
And now, more than anything, I think this is a watershed moment.
That Tina is on with us to share what's available because people are panicked.
When wars start, rumors of wars or threatening actions, the first thing people know is how do I stay in contact?
You've got sources.
I've got sources.
Tina's got friends all over the world, but the point is it's critical.
That we listen to Tina and allow her to explain the benefits of what isn't dependent on landlines.
And my statement, no cell, no power, no problem.
So, Tina, take it away.
Okay.
Thank you so much, Steve.
So can I start by the questions, most asked questions by your listeners?
Sure.
Yeah, go ahead.
Questions?
Yeah.
So one of the question that we hear the most is, what if the banks went down and I can't make my payments?
Because majority of the customers are on monthly payments.
And the questions are normally, are you going to turn us off?
And the answer is absolutely not.
Because if the whole grid went down and the banks went down, we're not going to turn anyone off because when it does come back, we still want a company.
So if we're months or a few months behind, it's fine.
We'll catch up at that point when things get back to normal.
But no, we will not turn your satellite phones off.
Okay, that's huge.
And I know, so customers, they can have faith that they're going to keep their service running, and they don't have to try to prepay a year or anything like that.
They can just catch up once the transaction systems are operating again, is what it sounds like you're saying.
Correct.
Yeah, that is right.
So we're not going to turn anyone off if it's beyond your control.
Right, right.
And also for people, the minutes that they have are always accumulating and rolling over month to month if they're not using them.
So as I understand it, I guess I'm asking you, you're going to continue to credit each person's account with those minutes for those months, even if the banking system is not functioning.
That is correct.
Because once everything comes back up and running, they can catch up on their back payments.
Okay.
Everybody's phones, if it's your only communication that's left, so you don't have to worry.
You'll still be able to use your satellite equipment.
Okay, that sounds great.
Yes?
I'm sorry.
That's the most asked question.
I think, Steve, you have some questions that you've received that you'd like to ask, or Mike, and I'll be able to answer those, and then we can go ahead and move forward.
Go ahead, Steve.
Well, I think the critical thing too, Tina, is the necessity and they're free to get a U.S. number in addition to the satellite international number.
And would you explain how that goes on?
And there's a big cost difference, and so it's a really important issue.
Right.
Right.
And this is one of the reasons why all of your listeners automatically get a USA number, because satellite phones come with an international number.
And so we add a USA number so that it could bypass the international number.
But it is important to have the...
The satellite number, because if anything that went down with the USA numbers, at least their international numbers will still be working.
So they do need to have both.
And here's the difference.
When you make a call from a satellite phone to any number, there is no additional fee for you, no additional fee for the person receiving the call.
It's all the same.
But when somebody uses their iPhones to call a satellite number, they should use the USA number to call you on.
Because if they don't, if they use the international number from a cell phone to call you, your satellite phone isn't still going to be no additional fee.
But they could assume some fees from their carrier, from the If they have Verizon or AT&T or T-Mobile, there could be a fee anywhere between, we've seen from $5 to $10 a minute.
So you do want to give out both numbers, but you want to encourage everyone to call you on your USA number.
Okay, Tina.
Yes.
I just want to clarify that because that number is pretty scary, $5 to $10 a minute.
You're only talking about someone using, let's say, an iPhone or an Android phone initiating a call to a satellite phone number.
That person initiating that call could be charged those additional fees by their carrier.
But the way to avoid that is for them to just call your...
Your regular cell phone, your USA number that's also assigned in parallel to your satellite phone number.
Does that sound correct?
That is correct.
If incoming calls and outgoing calls will all be, there's no extra fee whatsoever if the person calling you from their cell phone uses the USA number to call you on.
And if they use the international number for whatever reason, there's still no extra fees for you.
It's for the satellite holder.
It's only from their carrier on their regular phone bill, their iPhone or their Android, whether it's with Verizon or any...
Okay.
Yeah.
Great.
Thank you for that clarification.
Now, if you don't mind, I'll add a question that people have asked me, and I've answered this in podcasts, but it'd be great for you to answer it right here.
Some people are concerned about the radiation or the EMFs of the SAT phone, but of course, as I explained, that antenna is pointed at the satellites and talking to satellites, and that's above you.
So how do you answer that question for people?
Right.
I totally agree with you, Mike.
If you notice, just about every satellite phone has the tip, and I'll show you one of them, and I'll get it a bit easier to explain.
So take a look at the iridium phone.
So any radiation is only at the tip and it is going out and it's completely above the skull when you're talking on the phone.
So you don't have to worry too much.
Now, it's not a guarantee that there is 100% no radiation, but it's not as bad as anything else like standing in the sun or, you know, standing in front of a microwave.
There's really not Too much.
And the other option is it does have a speaker.
So what I normally do, most of the times when I'm using these, I'm out in the desert or in the mountains where there's nothing.
I usually do use the speaker.
So you do have the option to use the speaker and keep the phone away from you.
In doing that, if you don't mind me adding, it's just critical that people understand the orientation of the phone needs to maintain that antenna pointed up at the sky, at the satellite network.
So even if they hold it away from themselves, they just need to be mindful of that orientation, correct?
Correct.
Right, right.
You're not going to get connection if you hold it wrong because a lot of people will get it like this and then they'll get a connection and then they'll go like this.
So make sure that it's always pointed.
Okay, right.
Yeah, I've seen people do that too where they get a connection and then they forget about that and then they kind of let it droop and then the antenna is pointed at the horizon and that's not really going to work.
Yeah, I've seen it a lot in the movies and it cracks me up because, and in the movies they use it indoors and then they have the antenna and I'm like, wow, you know, I guess the editor didn't realize that.
Yeah, a lot of movie depictions are not, you know, not reliable.
Steve, any comments on the radiation factor or connections?
Well, yeah, I would say this too, since it's at the tip of the antenna, most people don't understand how much radiation they get off their normal cell phone.
Right.
And a satellite phone is, you know, I'll get a, we'll come up with a number, but this is way worse than the satellite phone antenna because the satellite phone antenna is directional, okay, versus omnidirectional.
And so this access is not only a homing beacon to, you know, whatever, but the bottom line is it's more, the satellite phone is safer for people who have that electromagnetic concern.
And by the way, I'm one of them.
I call my cell phone the hell phone, okay?
Right.
Yeah, and I also think just in context, you know, I think most people when they're using a satellite phone, it's often in either an emergency situation or a situation where they have no other alternative because there are no cell towers around.
And it's not like people are spending hours per day on a satellite phone like they typically do on a regular mobile device.
Yeah, that's right.
You'd be surprised.
There are some people in, like, camps, you know, in Utah and other places that do use thousands and thousands of minutes every month.
Wow.
Some 20, 30,000 minutes.
But it's okay.
I mean, this is their communication.
They have no other choice.
They're out in the middle of nowhere with these, you know, children camps.
So, yeah.
Oil rigs, I guess, too, and emergency responders responding to hurricanes and grid-down situations, right?
All those people are going to have, you know, sat phones as their main communication system.
Right, right.
People, you know, military, boats.
Yeah, no, and a lot of people live off the grid as well.
For a lot of people, this is their communication that live in the mountains or in the middle of nowhere, but yep.
Now, do you want to show us more about the phones or you want to talk about Inmarsat versus Iridium?
Of course, yeah.
Of course, yeah.
I would like to do that.
Let me just start by...
So this is my kit.
I love off-roading.
So I go off-roading quite a bit and I take my work with me when I go off-roading.
I'm a Hot Springs seeker.
I go look for Hot Springs.
So this is a high-speed internet.
This is it.
This will connect with your iPhone and you can have high-speed internet with this from anywhere.
The only places that it won't work well are the poles, the North Pole and the South Pole.
But I really like this.
It's easy to use.
You just power on and you connect and find a satellite and connect and you've got approximately 400 kilobytes per second.
So I usually check my emails and do some work when I'm off.
Now, we only have about 120 of these left.
I don't know when they'll make more of these because of component issues.
So Hughes has not given us...
A timeframe of when we'll be able to get more.
We do have quite a few quotes because of what's going on in Ukraine right now.
So I don't know how long these are going to last.
Tina, I'm sorry to interrupt, but a quick question.
So that's the device that creates a Bluetooth hotspot, right?
So any laptop or any mobile phone can simply connect to it via...
I'm sorry, Wi-Fi, not Bluetooth, but Wi-Fi connection, and then all those devices have bandwidth, correct?
Yeah, yeah.
I use iPad.
Okay.
Okay, yeah, because you don't have to plug in physical cables from your devices, in other words.
Just to let you know, these are pretty expensive.
They're about $2,700 each.
The plan is $299 a month for 2.5 gigabytes, which is a lot.
I never use more than 2.5 gigabytes per month.
But there is an emergency plan that's $79 a month.
You get 10 megabytes, not gigabytes, just 10 megabytes.
And that's good to have as an emergency.
If everything went out, I think, Mike, you have one of these.
Steve, you have one of these as well.
And if, you know, if internet went down or, you know, the communications went down, I don't think you're going to care about the price for overage because it's going to be the only communication you have.
No, you're right.
And the other thing I want to mention, folks, is this is not for watching YouTube videos or Brighteon videos because those videos are going to use up all your bandwidth.
This is for email communications, perhaps emailing images, still images.
If you use video, if you're sending and receiving video, you're going to use up all that bandwidth very quickly.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
So the $2.99, if someone that maybe has a company and they like to go off-roading or camping, and then they can take it with them, the 2.5 gigabytes is quite big.
And we do have a video on our website.
I encourage you to watch the video because it shows you what to do to turn off some of the background apps so that they're not consuming your Your communication.
Best thing to do is to put the phone or the unit that you're using on airplane mode.
And then you're not using anything but the data that you're actually using.
Oh, that's interesting.
Steve, you have one of these devices too, is that right?
Tina, it's really critical because quite candidly, due to the process of some of the expeditions and stuff my guys are on, and the interference with photographs going over the normal internet and stuff, Mike, in other words, people and the interference with photographs going over the normal internet and stuff, Mike, in other words, people trying to intercept stuff they don't want to admit exists,
And quite candidly, I think everybody's going to have to figure out that they're going to have to have an alternative way of sending communications, and it's going to get to the point, and I'm sorry, Sorry, but it's going to get to the point where the only communications will be those networks that I would call intranet communications.
And this is going to be important for people.
As, let's say, the U.S. economy, when it goes south, when it crashes or whatever happens, this is the way they'll keep up on market prices worldwide.
And again, it's data.
It's not for sitting there doing selfies, okay?
Or, you know, just having running diatribes.
Here I am on a rock.
Here I am in Glen Canyon, you know?
This is for, I would say this, really, communications becomes a matter of life and death.
So just as when you're on the sea, you put on a, you know, a flotation device.
I want people to understand this.
This is your outreach to the world, okay?
And there's nothing more deadly, devastating, or psychologically troubling than being shut off from data when things that are happening are going to hurt you.
And this is why it's so critical.
And even as we're filming this right now, Mike, I mean, the news is becoming more and more It's dire in Ukraine than it goes into Europe.
But as people have got to understand, what's going on over there is going to come here.
And that's a safe call.
It's because the threats are against us.
Absolutely.
And Tina, I have a pricing question for you on this.
I think the answer is no, but it would sure be great from a customer point of view if the unused bandwidth rolled over month to month, but I don't think it works that way.
Can you clarify that?
I would love that for me personally, but no, it doesn't work that way.
Began, MRSAT will not allow you to carry over, but the 2.5, which is 2,500 megabytes, and if you're only using it to just do your work...
That will last you quite a while.
I mean, I've never gone over.
And I think what happens, and I'm not 100% sure, and I'll have that answer for you before we're done.
I don't think there's overage.
The overage, it just slows down quite a bit.
So it goes from like 400 kilobytes per second down to like maybe 50 or 60 kilobytes per second.
So you're not going to have the high-speed internet.
Right.
But 2500 megabytes, it's quite a bit.
If you look at like a picture, some pictures, if you kind of, they're not high resolution, they're only like two or three megabytes.
Well, the thing that gets people, I think, is, for example, when I use that device, I use it for browsing.
You know, check the news headlines and check the breaking news.
And some of the websites, you bring it up in your browser, a lot of websites will autoplay videos, which personally, I hate that.
None of the sites that I control autoplay videos, but a lot of sites out there do.
So it's almost like you have to turn those off in your browser so that those videos don't start sucking up all your bandwidth automatically.
Right.
I think our video, our training video on our website teaches you how to do that.
Okay, great.
There is an app that you can download.
Let me just ask the tech guy, is that right?
Like a browser plugin?
Is there an app that can block the videos?
So, okay, yes.
There is an app that will block videos in general.
Yeah.
If you were to pop up on a website.
Right.
I don't know, actually.
That's a good question.
There is a way to make your browser so that it won't play videos.
It goes into a basic mode, but I'm not exactly sure.
I'll look into it.
Yeah, you're right.
I seem to recall there is a setting for that inside most browsers, so yeah.
Okay.
Mike, we'll look into that and what we'll do.
The next video that we'll make, so look for that, it will show you how to do that.
Okay.
Do the research and we'll learn it and everything.
But if you do want to get one of these, we do only have about 120...
We have quotes, quite a few quotes out there right now because of what's happening in Ukraine, but these are quotes for all of our data, so some of the bigger data, so we may, by the end of this month, we may not have any data products available.
Talk to us for a second about the chip shortage and how it's affecting your sat phones and the began devices.
How is that shortage affecting you in terms of your ability to get hardware?
Right.
So we are having a hard time getting anything these days.
Last year, we learned very early on that I think, you know, listening to you, listening to Steve and hearing that the chip shortage and cars and everything, we're like, wait a minute.
They're using the same Components to make these satellite equipment.
So what if?
So we started to really purchase.
We started purchasing everything back at the beginning of 2021.
Anything we can find.
So we do have quite a bit of data product in inventory.
And that's going to come in handy for this Ukraine.
But to get these units, so we bought these units about a year ago.
And we bought everything we could find and we've spoken with you as many times and we don't have an estimated time of when they will be making more of them.
So I don't know if there's going to be any more made in the next couple months or even this year because we don't have an answer.
So what we have is what we have on these.
Okay.
One more question.
And Steve, jump in any time.
I'm sorry to dominate with the questions here.
But first of all, for those listening, sat123.com is the website where you can go to order any of these solutions that Tina's talking about.
Again, that's sat123.com.
But a question for you, Tina.
Can someone purchase that BGAN hardware that you're just showing us?
Can they purchase it And then put it on pause and not pay anything for a few months and then maybe six months later call you and say activate it and then start paying a monthly fee at that time and use it then.
They can.
However, also, Mike, keep in mind that the prices are all not going to be the same in six months from now.
True.
We've already noticed a huge increase in equipment prices.
I think they're going to be going up more.
There was a 20% increase in handsets so far as what I've seen.
These, we don't know the new price because there's none to buy.
The price is infinite.
Yeah.
Because it's right.
Supply is zero.
Yeah, let me jump in here.
I want to share something to people.
The inflation prices that people are seeing are made up on the spot, okay?
They're not actually reflected.
It's much higher.
And pretty soon the discussion, Tina and Mike, is going to go, and this is what all of our viewers need to understand.
It won't be price.
It will be availability price.
Tina, you've watched it.
People, when they're in a panic, a corporation, or let's say a business, and they've got people all over the world, price is secondary.
So what we're trying to say is, this is kind of, in my opinion, this timeliness of this whole presentation is really important.
Because again, price...
Let me give you another one of my axioms.
Price is going to become more problematic, but availability is going to be becoming the most dramatic, okay?
Because it's not a question of what you've got to pay.
It's a question of can you even get it no matter what you're willing to pay?
And I think that's what, Tina, you're saying to people.
There's no locking in any of these prices.
They can get it now at the good prices.
And look, I've got a new word for this too, Mike.
What we're trying to give people is life-omercials, okay?
We're trying to tell you the benefit of your life because, you know, well, that's just an infomercial.
Well, let me tell you something.
In this case, it's an infomercial because I personally know what it's like to have had the satellite phone save my wife and her friend and her sister's life when they went down in a canyon in Utah.
Or, you know, her friend, my wife's sister's friend, and most likely my wife's sister would have died.
So I am a big believer in this.
And again, ladies and gentlemen, there's too much, too many conversations going on.
This could happen.
But the bottom line is, is we're watching it really happen.
And we're all watching empty shelves.
We're watching cars going up in price and even used cars, 40% higher, you know, specific cars.
And so, you know, please, ladies and gentlemen, take advantage of this because I know the chip business from people who are in it.
I'm not personally involved in it, but they're telling me, here's the word they're using, Mike.
They're using the word dire, right?
And dire is another word that's like perilous, okay?
And when the chips, for whatever reason, are interrupted, and, you know, like nuclear war does tend to put a damper on everybody's plans for the future.
But the thing is, is that the military and anybody who needs extra communication, my guess is, Tina, is this accurate?
From floods and earthquakes and stuff?
I mean, it can take your entire stock out in what?
A matter of hours?
A matter of days?
I don't know.
I'm just asking you.
Right, yeah.
I mean, during Hurricane Maria in 2017, you could not find a satellite phone or a data unit or a GX anywhere, anywhere, anywhere on Earth.
I mean, we were just like, we became...
When customers will call in, they're like, you know, I need to know, is my mom okay?
Is my sister okay?
We have to go through our database to find if somebody lived on that street that had a satellite phone, and then we would send them a text message.
Is everyone on your street okay?
Yeah, and that's kind of like what it comes down to.
If you do have a sat phone and there is a disaster in their area, it would be really nice to go out and share it with your neighbors because, as you know, their families are going to be concerned about them.
You have a satellite phone, so you can call out and let your friends and family know that you're okay, but your neighbor doesn't.
So we highly encourage everyone to share their satellite phones.
It's a disaster in their area.
Tina, I 100% agree with what Steve said, and I'll just add my own little personal take on that.
It was a year ago in Texas when we had the big freeze that wiped out virtually the entire Texas power grid.
It wasn't ready for the super cold temperatures.
And where I am in central Texas, we lost all the cell towers.
We lost the fuel stations.
The roads were completely impassable.
If you called 911, they would just say, you know, we're going to wait for it to thaw.
Good luck, basically.
So you had no communications.
You had nothing.
And the power grid was down.
I mean, you had no power, no roads, no fuel, no cell towers, nothing.
And so, yeah, I mean, I knew people that lived...
Sorted nearby, and we were getting together physically, and we were trading food.
I was like, you guys need food?
Does anybody have a medical emergency?
We were doing that.
None of us had a satellite phone.
And that's when I learned, and this is before I got the hardware from your company, if I had had that hardware at that time, I would have been able to help neighbors make calls to their loved ones to let them know that they were okay.
Yeah, yeah, that is the biggest thing is the unknown, Mike.
You know, my son has the same as I do here, and he is trained.
If anything happens, he is to take it out and give me a call, either on my sat phone.
Or my cell phone.
Because if I'm in the same area as him, or if the whole grid went out in the whole country, we will take our satellite phones and communicate with each other.
Just knowing that he's okay will give me peace.
And I know how a lot of these families feel when they don't know if their families, how their families.
Hurricane Katrina.
I mean, I can name a whole bunch of them where I've been through Where we've become, you know, to the point where we just take calls to just help people and help match people in the areas where their moms or their daughters lived.
Well, I think this brings us to really the bivvy stick solution, two-way text messaging.
Is this a good time to talk about that?
Because that's another way to do this without even having to have a phone phone.
Right, right.
So as long as you have your smartphone.
Right, right.
You have to use your smartphone to compose and read messages.
Right.
So I know you have a bivy stick.
I do use my bivy stick.
I do use this a lot.
And what's so good about this is that it gives you two-way communication.
And it does have an emergency button.
So you pre-plan five people in emergency.
And if you push the button, the emergency button, that message will go to the five people that you've selected with your GPS location.
So if you're lost, if you're hiking or camping or there was an emergency, all you have to do is press it and the five people will get that message and they will get your location.
And most likely they'll probably try to text you because you can text from any phone to...
To the BIVI. So you can text to a satellite phone.
You can text to a cell phone.
You can text to any phone that can receive text.
And then that person can reply back from any phone.
And you will get your message from anywhere on Earth.
This is very good for the people that live up north, especially Canada, Alaska, because it uses the Iridium network and there are 66 satellites.
So it will work from anywhere on the planet.
So you will have communication from anywhere on Earth.
And the reason why I love this for the hikers and campers, because it's light.
It weighs about 3.3 ounces.
And so it's not heavy at all.
So a lot of people are concerned about weight when they do go off-roading.
So yeah, so it's really good for North.
Now, it also works on low frequency.
So you don't have to have a, you can put it by a window.
And you power on.
And then as long as you walk within 30 feet, once you get a signal, the messages will show up.
Yeah, Steve, did you want to chime in on that?
Well, here's the deal.
Everybody will be so hungry for data that the ability to have basically a standby receiver that anybody who wants to send instead of, you know, obviously when you're on a satellite phone call, you've got to be in real time unless you're texting or messaging or receiving a Galileo alert.
But I think this is just such a cool thing.
Size is really neat too, Mike.
Again, most people, you know, and I want to make something really obvious here.
If anybody's traveling away from their home Excuse me, or in route between, let's say, a city, 20, 30 miles apart, take your phone with you, because we're coming into a time, your satellite phone and your bivy, we're coming into a time, ladies and gentlemen, but you can't take anything for granted.
Obviously, the text is freezing.
You guys just had another one, but the type that we're watching, we're watching the GoFundMe, not GoFundMe, but the site that took over being hacked, we're watching everything being hacked, cyberattacks, Listen, the cybersecurity world now is getting hit with multiple sovereign nations attacks.
And command, control, and communication is the critical thing for people to understand.
Command, control, and communication.
Just like Tina wants to stay in contact with her son, I want to stay in contact with my daughter.
Stephanie, she travels all over.
I want to stay in contact with you, obviously.
And ladies and gentlemen, that's why it's so critical.
Those of us who are influencers, and we talk about that later on Galileo, but we have to stay in contact because, again, all of those of us who are influencers have different sources for data, And different sources of people trying to get messages out that are life and death.
And so that's why I think that, you know, just as a life preserver, this, you know, your satellite phone and your BIVI are like information preservers.
And your information is like, you know, Mike, you know this and Tina, the most expensive commodity in the world now is intelligence.
Not the lack of it in the United States, but I'm talking about being able to get the data, being able to get enough information.
Actually, it's more accurate to say the information sources And we're watching this in real time right now, and I think it becomes more problematic when people don't understand that it's not when you think it might happen that it happens.
It's always when you're not thinking it's going to happen.
That is the protocol.
It always happens when you don't think it's going to happen.
It being communications breakdown, vehicle breakdown, whatever.
And, you know, again, it's the most...
I would say this, the real-time life communication preserver you can take with you and make sure you've got them charged all the time.
You're running them off your 12-volt, you know, and your car battery and however you're doing it besides running off your computer to charge it.
The thing is that, ladies and gentlemen, I've got to reiterate this.
And there's passion in what I'm saying.
You can see it.
You can feel it.
There is going to be a panic for communications devices.
And what we're offering you now, I would call this, is a time-out period where Tina has come on and said, and it will stay on saying, but look at what's happening, just like the question Mike asked.
And when it comes to communication stuff, It's the first thing to go, first thing to go, even beyond food.
I mean, the people that, you know, have food have food, but communication.
And that's probably one of the most neighborly, kind things you can do is when somebody, you can put someone who's...
Panicked about their loved ones, and I've been in that condition, so I know what it's like.
And they offer you, look, let me see if I can find somebody in the neighborhood.
And what I want people to understand, too, is a satellite phone store, they go the extra mile to basically find A and B and put them together.
So what I'm saying is it's an accommodation of people that believe in what they're doing.
That's why Tina and I have been friends for, I think it's over 10 years, Tina, but the bottom line is that's still...
2009, Steve.
Yeah, okay, so 13 years.
Yeah, I can count to 22.
I'm so happy.
Steve, I also want to point out that we do have about 1,500 of these.
They are made in the Philippines, but the new ones are going to be made in the USA. So if you don't mind getting one right now, they are free.
You just pay $50 a month, and it is unlimited texting.
Tina, I want to add a tech tip for everybody on that.
You do need to use typically like an Android phone or some kind of mobile device to talk to the BiviStick via Bluetooth and you need to have that Bivi app on your mobile device and it's just to compose and read messages but my tip is that mobile phone device doesn't have to be one that's even working with the cell towers.
That doesn't have to be your account.
You can just go out and buy some cheap You know, almost disposable phone for less than $50, and you can use that.
You could have it dedicated to the bivy to compose messages, because remember, the bivy stick is talking only to the satellites.
There's no cell towers involved in this communication at all, and I just want to be clear that people understand that.
Right, right.
You can turn your phone on airplane mode so you don't need service on your phone.
And then you'll be able to do two-way texting from anywhere on Earth.
These have 120 hours of standby.
And then you can charge it with a charger.
You can plug it in or plug it into solar or battery pack.
The charger port is right here.
And it's got an SOS button as well.
So for emergencies.
So if something happens where you needed help, and so you can press the SOS button for help.
Okay, and the most important question, does the texting support the pregnant man emoji?
One of the things that I do like about it, Mike, is that the numbers that you've stored on your phones will come up when you text on the app.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah.
That's great.
I encourage everyone to just download the app.
There's no cost.
Go to Bivy, type in Bivy, download the app, and then if you get your Bivy, then you can connect it and start using it.
Okay, that's great, Tina.
All right, so you've covered the sat phones.
You've covered the BGAN bandwidth solution.
You've covered the BivyStick.
Are you going to talk about Galileo, or are you going to go into the phone networks?
I see.
Can we talk about these phones?
We did get in 400 more of these phones.
So we do have 400 of them in stock.
They are free still.
And for $99.95, you get 150 minutes.
It does include the USA number and includes rollover.
And the phone is free.
The only requirement is that you stay on for a 12-month agreement for this ISAP. The ISAT works great.
The satellite, they're geostationary.
They're located right over the equator.
But it does not work in the north and the south pole.
It doesn't work very well if you live in Alaska or northern part of Canada.
But if you live in the U.S., anywhere else on Earth, including the waters, this is the best phone.
What I like about this is the battery gives you about 80 hours of standby, which is really, really nice.
And some of the other features, the sound quality is amazing.
I love this phone.
Most of my usage when I'm off-road, I use this phone.
But if you're in Canada or Alaska or the very South Pole, then this is the phone.
The Iridium has...
66 satellites.
It's the only true global satellite communication is Iridium.
It's Free, but you sign up on a 24-month agreement.
And the price is the same.
$99.95.
You get 100 minutes, not $150.
It's a little bit more expensive.
You do get a USA number, and it does include rollover.
But this is a really nice phone.
We have about 400 or 500 of these.
These have gone up in price by about 20% when we purchase new ones.
We are anticipating that Iridium will give us 1,000 of them by June.
So for right now, we still have 500 of these, but once they're gone, the next shipment will be in June.
I don't know when the next shipment is for the MRSAT phones, but they tell us sometime in April.
We might be able to pick up another thousand of these.
So that's about satellite phones.
If you have any questions, Mike or Steve, for me.
Steve, you want to jump in?
Or if not, I have a couple of questions.
Oh, yeah.
No, you go ahead and jump in with the questions because I'll be, you know, I'm listening and you're right there.
When I say right there, please, you know, facilitate your questions.
And then you may be already asking the ones I would ask.
So go ahead, Michael, if you don't mind.
Well, I just want to make sure, I mean, both of these phones have, of course, speakerphone capability.
They both can be charged simply through like a USB plug-in charger or, I mean, they have 12-volt options and they have wall plugs, right?
How's the charging set up?
They do.
For me, I use solar panel because I'm usually charging them out and about.
I also carry backup batteries.
And then I carry a backup power bank.
And what I do is charge up my power bank with my solar panel.
And then when I go to charge the phone, I use the battery bank.
But yes, it does come with USB. It comes with the AC and DC. So you get everything with it.
Can you talk about privacy for a minute?
This is an angle that's been very important to me because we're all tracked on our regular phones.
So I'll just share this.
One thing that I do, I'm not sure if you do this, Steve, but sometimes when I have to go somewhere and meet somebody for a business meeting, I won't even take my cell phone at all.
I only take the sat phone as a backup device because...
Folks, there's something called geofencing warrants where if you're driving by, let's say I'm driving into Austin, and then somebody in Austin commits a robbery or something, at the same moment that I'm driving by that street,
A Google, with a police warrant, Google will turn over everybody who was in that area at that time, and then the police will consider you to be guilty or a suspect in that crime just because your phone was nearby.
Steve, you've heard of that.
You've seen that in the media, right?
Oh, absolutely.
And as for a point of reference, I shared that.
That came out of the technology...
China, if you will, connection.
Because again, ladies and gentlemen, high tech move to China.
And this is important for people to understand.
Satellite phones don't have that geosensing ability.
But again, if you're just even suspect because of the political bumper sticker on your car, and I would say this to everybody, don't have those nowadays at all.
But the point being is that the geosensing is basically a warrantless search warrant For you, and the courts are ruling in the favor of law enforcement that that probable cause goes out the window with geosensing warrants, okay?
And this is really critical, everybody, because I came up with a statement with a cell phone.
I do the same thing that Mike is...
A lot of people get mad because, well, you never answer your cell phone.
I said, well, that's because I just sunk at the deepest ocean of the sea.
But the bottom line is, I don't take my cell phone.
I do take my sat phone.
I have my Iridium right here.
I want people to understand.
I'm in Bozen, Montana.
The thing is, my ISAT is in my truck.
And I keep it charged.
And so this is a critical thing, ladies and gentlemen, because in an ideal world, we shouldn't have this conversation.
In a real world, your life depends on this conversation.
That's as blunt as I can get.
Mike, a while back, about maybe 15 years ago, we had a customer that was lost in the middle of the desert.
He couldn't give us his direction where he was located because these have no GPS. And we lost that person because he never returned the phone back.
We didn't hear back from him.
We heard from his wife.
They couldn't find him.
That's how secure these are.
You have to make sure that if you do travel, that you download the map or know where you're at.
These cannot be tracked.
It's not impossible for somebody, for government to track you, but it's very, very unlikely.
But the bit...
The bivy stick, though, definitely, when you press the emergency button, it will broadcast your GPS position, correct?
Right, right.
And so will the ISAT. So the ISAT does have also an emergency.
But the most secure phone that I have experienced where the customers have needed help, but we couldn't get to them unless they gave us their location, has been...
The Iridium phone.
So I'd say this is probably the most secured phone there is.
Not to say that the MRSAT isn't, but the MRSAT does have a GPS and you can get your coordinates for first responders if needed.
Right, but just to be clear, it's not constantly broadcasting your GPS location as you're making a call.
Right.
Yeah, you have to give it.
One of the reasons why I like about the Bivy, it's about half the price.
It's only $50 a month.
And before you leave, while you still have cell coverage, you can go to the Bivy app and download the map.
So that you'll have a map in case you got lost so that you can get out.
For me, that's everything because I absolutely have no sense of directions whatsoever.
I can't even get home most of the time unless I use GPS. So this is really, really helpful for me.
And I do use that a lot on the map.
And also the other benefits is you can check the weather no matter where you're at.
Whether you're hiking or if you're in the middle of the waters, if you want to see if there's a storm coming.
So this is really handy, some of the benefits that you can get from the bivvy stick that you cannot get from the satellite phones.
Okay, so great information for survival and preparedness.
This is kind of bottom line.
Wherever you go, know where you are.
And also, folks, don't forget, you can get very low-cost GPS receivers online that you can carry with you.
So even if your phone wasn't broadcasting your location, if you could make a satellite call, you could tell somebody.
It's 49 minutes north or whatever.
You could just read it off your GPS screen.
So if you're going to go out in the wilderness, bring a GPS receiver.
I think that should be kind of like off-roading 101, right?
Right.
I agree with you, Mike.
And these phones, if you want privacy, there's nothing more private than these phones.
There's just nothing else out there.
This is the best.
This is the same ones militaries all over the world use so they can have their privacy so they don't get caught by the bad guys.
So you have the same opportunity to have the same privacy as they do.
Okay.
Now, I think you want to talk to our audience about Galileo as the final chapter here today?
Yeah, I think Steve knows more about Galileo than I do.
I just want to point out that the BIVI, I know Galileo is working with BIVI to get this working so that they can receive messages.
I did talk to someone from BIVI today and they said they're just a couple of weeks out before that'll be So you can still sign up and sign up with Galileo, but it will be a couple weeks before the messages will be appearing on your iPhone from the influencers on your app, on your Bivy app, on your phone, once your Bivy is turned on.
I want to address Galileo because, number one, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your patience because there's been growing pains because a lot of people want the immediate warning and alert.
Number two, Galileo, we have now, I'm speaking on behalf of the Project Galileo, we have people that are assigned to full-time customer service.
And because of just issues, and listen, I'm not a software guy.
Mike, you're a computer guy.
Tina, you're a computer woman.
But I just want to hear, you know, do this, and I don't want to hear, well, that'll take me two weeks of development software.
But now the kinks are being ironed out.
So on my list, and Mike, I'd encourage you to do this too, we'll send out the contact information for people to call customer service for Galileo.
So what Galileo is, is it's...
Actually, 137-character condensed messaging that the influencers, the influencers are Doug Hagman.
I mean, there's more of them, but Doug Hagman, myself, Mike Adams, Alex Jones, and forgive me, but the influencers are the people.
Oh, Manuel Petyat in Switzerland, Manuel Petyat.
Who is an employee now of the Galileo, you know, independent contractor, but he puts out the best stuff in my opinion.
I'm a, you know, pretty news-dense website, so we have some really good influencers because the goal is to get coverage 24-7.
We've got our European coverage.
We've got our U.S. coverage, obviously the influencers in the U.S. We've got our South Asian influence information source kind of on data hold right now.
But Galileo is an emergency alert system primarily for the influencers.
In other words, you know the information that Mike Adams brings you, that I bring you, that Doug Hagman brings you, that Alex Jones brings you, and Malik's.
And excuse me, Strange Sounds, Manuel Pettiot in Switzerland, listen, he's on it.
If Vesuvius blows or if there's a 131-foot tidal wave that most people didn't know about, all those kinds of data are important, especially if you're thinking, hey, I'm going to get my sailboat and head out.
To the Portugal or the Azores or something.
This is just hypothetical.
You need this information.
So Galileo is a satellite-based news information service, but more an alert service.
And Galileo, the influencers, here's one of my bad drawings, we'll maybe do it better, but if you want to look at Galileo, the main server is in Colorado, and we'll have other servers, but the point is, all of us feed in Our alerts.
And then dependent, this is Galileo in Denver, and then the servers in Galileo send that out to people who have registered for the specific news feed.
In other words, people say, well, I like Mike Adams, I don't like Steve Coyle, or whatever.
They want the information.
The point is, is there's nothing else like it in the world.
And again, I want everybody to remember this.
No cell, no power, no problem.
Galileo, a guy that's got a five-minute heads-up and can avoid a problem, is way better than a person that's a minute too late.
You know, being too late is too late.
It doesn't matter.
There's no time frame on that statement.
If you're too late, you're too late.
So the importance of having customer service, and now we've got people directed.
And Tina, since we're just talking right now, and Mike, This is just going to be now made available to the people who are the customer service representatives, and we'll make sure that that's their job, you guys.
They need to be able to answer, and they will.
Any questions you have on Galileo, but it's the chicken or the egg.
You can't have Galileo or access to it without having a satellite phone.
Steve, I just want to mention that and clarify for people.
For those who are getting one of these satellite phones, or coming up soon, the bivvy stick, they will be using those devices to receive the Galileo alerts.
And so I want to just explain, and Tina, I know you'll back me up on this.
So what you have to do, folks, is you have to turn on your phone, you have to let it connect to the satellites, and then the new messages will come download to your phone.
So they're not going to just magically show up if your phone's not connected to the satellite.
You've got to do that Probably once or twice, especially during a crisis, you're going to want to connect multiple times a day to get those new alerts.
Is that all correct, Tina?
Yes, it is.
Thank you for clarifying that.
You do have to have connection.
Now, keep in mind that with the satellite phones, after about five days, the message is old and it will erase.
So when you turn on your phone, you're not going to get a lot of old messages.
And with the satellite phones, they are 164 characters.
But one of the things that I like about the BIVI, that the messages can be as high as 900 characters.
To a thousand characters.
So that's a big plus for the bivy.
And then also, Steve, can you...
Galileo isn't spelled like the Galileo, Galileo.
So, Steve, can you spell how Galileo is the website?
And we'll put it on screen, too.
Oh, we'll put it on screen.
Okay, perfect.
It's G-A-L-I-L-E-Y-O. And the addition of the Y... And Galileo.com.
So the importance of it is simply this, that there's nothing else available.
Just as a point of correction, and this has been a point of confusion, in Marsat phones there's only 137 functional characters, because a lot of people were saying they were seeing redacted messages.
So when Eric was on with Mike and I, whatever, a couple weeks ago, that was never addressed.
And I didn't know that in a lot of people.
So what I've encouraged everybody to do is keep your messages at 137 or carry them over.
In essence, let's say Mike's got a 274 character message, or I do.
And the bottom line is we'll just put, you know, continue, C-O-N-T, previous message, or come up with a code or something, but there's only 137 usable characters on the M-Marsat phone.
Right.
And the reason for that is because the satellite phone number itself uses characters and then the spaces uses characters.
So I think that's the reason why it leaves you less in your message to put.
Also, I just want to remind everyone that if you do buy a satellite phone or if you already purchased a satellite phone, you can actually call us and we can add The fees of $12.95 for Galileo onto your bill so that you don't have to pay two bills.
So you can go directly to Galileo and sign up for the service or you can call us and sign up for the service.
And then also when you get your new, if you get a new BIVI or one of these New satellite phones.
You can sign up immediately onto Galileo and then Galileo will send you an email so that you can change your password and get your account set up and then choose the influencers that you would like to receive messages from.
Okay, Tina and Steve, just in the interest of time here, just to respect the audience, we're coming up on probably an hour.
What still outstanding topics do we need to hit before we wrap this up?
We've covered a lot.
This has been really informative.
What have we left out?
Excuse me, the only thing I think that's been left out, Mike, is the necessity to get a solar charger, because one thing is that it's going to be problematic.
There's a cyber attack on the grid, meaning the mainstream electrical grid, and obviously not everybody has a generator.
The satellite phone store offers a really cool little charger and all the accessories.
Tina, what is that price?
Let me ask, what's that price of that emergency kit?
It's $389, but here's what it comes with.
And I do carry all of that.
So it comes with a battery pack.
It comes with a solar.
And it comes with a...
Like an EMF protection pouch.
The satellite phone?
It comes with a large one, too, because you also have to protect your solar and your battery pack.
So everything needs to be protected.
So everything fits in there.
And then your satellite phone, the batteries need to go in there as well, your extra batteries.
So everything needs to go in there in advance of an attack.
Oh, and I should clarify.
I misspoke.
It's EMP protection.
And so what that's designed for, as I understand it, Tina, is that you store your solar panel and your sat phone and your batteries in those Faraday pouches.
And then if there's a big EMP attack or a nuclear detonation, solar flare, whatever, it's going to fry a lot of electronics around the world.
But you'll be able to open up that briefcase, that storage case, pull out your sat phone, and it's going to function because it's been protected.
Correct?
Right.
And also it does come with this case.
And this case fits, like it fits all of mine.
So you have room to add other product, other communication product if needed.
That's great.
So this is mine.
So I carry all of this with me in my car, in my truck when I go off-roading.
It's like a telecom treasure chest.
That's really great.
Yeah.
Okay, well, there you go, folks.
Yeah, it's 780 with the phone.
Without the phone?
Yeah, it's alright.
It's on our website.
If they go to sat123.com, it's right there.
Okay.
All right.
And also, as a disclaimer, prices may change.
I mean, people are going to be watching this video for quite some time, so today's prices may not apply because of what's happened with the inflation and supply chains as well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I guarantee you, I don't think we're going to be able to see these prices again once the product is available, especially in the data.
The data components are going to go up.
One of the manufacturing components told me that manufacturers these, that some of the components that used to cost $0.70 are $18 now.
That's crazy.
So it's going to cost a lot more to build these.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I would say, Steve, any final thoughts to add?
I would say act as quickly as you can, because again, someone who stays, and I'm literally up 18 hours a day off and on, And the thing is, is that we've never had a time like this before.
Never, ever.
And the panic, here's what, from the time I first met Tina, and this will be short, Mike, panic drives people to want to communicate, but then even with the satellite phone, there's a learning curve.
It's simple.
And then with the bivy, so we're saying, ladies and gentlemen, boy, get it ASAP as soon as possible.
Or, let's see, As soon before meltdown, okay?
Soon before meltdown.
Because again, look, we're trying to keep a little bit of, well, I'm attempting humor for levity's sake, but also, you've got to understand that this isn't happening.
You know, the same world it was.
So you've heard Tina tell you what's available, and I would encourage everybody to get it while it's available.
Because again, it will not be a question of price only.
It'll be a question of people will pay anything.
That they can afford to get in contact with who they love.
And we're trying to give everybody who's been a viewer of Mike Adams, his website, of me, my website.
We're trying to give you guys a heads up.
You're being warned.
You're being informed.
And thank you, Tina.
And you're being given everything that we can do to help you.
But you've got to do what you can do.
So again, I want to thank you, Tina, so much.
And you've heard me say it, Mike, and she really does.
She has a heart of gold, you know?
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I mean, I know the stories.
And, you know, it's not about that.
She gives the glory to God.
But the point being is that this is a time-sensitive podcast broadcast, and even whenever it plays and people may pick it up down road, there are no guarantees of price.
But these prices are available on the products available now, so we're encouraging everybody to get them as soon as they can.
And I would add, Steve, I mean, everything you said is exactly right.
I would just add not only get these devices but then practice using them.
And so you're going to need, if you give a phone to, let's say, a family member or a business partner that you need to reach in an emergency, you need to agree upon a time of day to call each other because you both have to be connected to the satellite.
So you need to say, okay, 12 noon, we're going to reach out in an emergency.
And you need to know how to place calls from the satellite phone.
How do you call a landline?
How do you call another sat phone?
How do you call a cell phone?
How do you dial somebody in Germany or Ukraine, for that matter?
What's the international code for Ukraine and so on?
You need to practice this, get competent, use them, and then you're ready.
Not just having the hardware sitting in a closet like, oh, I'll figure it out when I need to.
No.
By that time, it's too late.
You need to learn how to use it now because right now you can watch the videos, you can call the support line, you can get help now.
Tina, anything to add to that?
Yeah, I totally agree with you on that.
That is the biggest issue is like when we do have emergencies, people like, you know, they call us and they're like, can I get this person's phone number?
And I'm like, well, we can't just give you their phone number.
Well, that's my mom or my daughter, and I don't know her satellite phone number.
Know each other's satellite phone numbers.
It is very important.
So if you get a satellite phone from us, make sure that you give this number out to your friends and family and let them know in event of emergency, this is your satellite phone and this is the number that they can call you on.
Exactly.
All right.
Well, I want to thank you both for taking the time here today.
This has been very informative.
You've answered a lot of questions, Tina.
And Steve, I think you've set the appropriate level of urgency based on world events.
And I think we all agree these are solutions.
Otherwise, the three of us wouldn't be here together talking about this if this wasn't helping to save lives, get people prepared, help people flee dangerous situations, help people coordinate with loved ones, reduce anxiety by being able to communicate.
So We all agree this is very important.
Folks, just go to sat123.com to see what's available and do it now because the availability is dwindling constantly.
And I want to thank you, Tina, for your company's ongoing support of Brightown.tv and my podcast and the work that we do to help people get prepared.
We really appreciate it.
Thank you so much, Mike.
This one, I just wanted to point out, to find this one, just go to the search button and just put 9502.
Wait, 9502?
9502.
Just type in 9502 on the search if you're looking for this.
Okay, so 9502.
Correct.
Okay.
That's the model.
Okay.
Okay, great.
All right.
Not Beverly Hills address.
Okay.
All right.
Great.
Well, thank you for joining today.
And, of course, SAT123 is the website.
If you have any questions, I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
And Steve Quayle joined us today.
His website is stevequayle.com.
And then, you know, you can reach customer support people at the Satellite Phone Store for any questions you have, pre-purchase or post-purchase as well.
Thank you all for joining today.
God bless you all.
all be safe and take care.
Thank you.
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