How to Call an Iridium Satellite Phone from the U.S.

Need to call someone with Iridium satellite phone? No problem, here's your resource.

Firstly you need to make sure you have international dialing capabilities to dial the country code '881', Iridium's virtual international country code. So now may be time to check with your long distance service provider for access and rates.

Once you have determined that you have international dialing access, here's the format to dial:
011 8816 ### #####

If you are currently using an Iridium satellite phone and would like to call another Iridium sat phone, dialing is just as easy. Dialing format:
'+' 8816 ### #####
or
00 8816 ### #####

And that's all there is to it.