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The country codes are +881 for Iridium and +88216 for Thuraya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuraya

Both have quirky inbound SMS messaging from traditional SMS sources and it seems unlikely or at least hit and miss if inbound messages to those devices will work (in general).

For example inbound SMS works from a US cell phone to Iridium (mostly), but does not work from a UK mobile phone. Ultimately the question is whether the SMS provider has routing setup FROM you TO the destination, and the more quirky the destination the less likely they bothered.

However, clearly bringing it to attention of Twitter is potentially a sensible idea since they won't prioritise a fix if you don't show the demand...

Notes on some Iridium limitations here:
http://www.mailasail.com/Support/Send...

Good luck

I will update our support pages. However, the state of play right now is that outgoing SMS/text messages from an Iridium to a cell phone now *mostly* work. However, *incoming* messages are a bit hit and miss. It works ok for some countries (eg the USA seems to have a good hookup), but the UK at the time of writing (Feb 09) doesn't seem to correctly pass SMS messages from Vodafone, et al to the Iridium gateway.

Hopefully this will slowly improve, but for now use the (free) email or web gateways to send SMS messages

Ed Wildgoose
http://www.mailasail.com