Thread: Inreach Messages not sending due to spam blocking government?

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

A friend of mine has used Inreach to talk to his son in the wilds of Canada.

Not sure about the specific causes, but it seems to be dodgy reliability, and sometimes long intervals between messages being sent and recieved.

The delay is to be expected as its a message forwarding service. Ie you text garmin then they text the contact. Also the phone number you get the text from garmin on is different for every phone. For example if I text my partner she gets 12345 while if I text my brother he gets a message from 54321(obviously not the real numbers). All inreach to inreach and inreach to email messages I have done have sent and received 100%. I can tel you they are 10x better than the alternative being Spot or a sat phone from my experience. They seem to be able to slip through a message in borderline service whereas our satphone in Canada required you to be in an open space or on a ridge to get good coverage.