rental for 2-way backcountry communication

This is the only rentable satellite messager I have come across.

http://cerberus.briartek.com/

To find details on renting one go to the "Get it Now" page. It is $65 for 2 weeks or $90 for 4. I haven't tried it myself but was considering renting one for a longer hike this summer. I have read some reviews and it seems like a solid product. It weighs in at 6.5 ounces.

If you do end up renting one I would love to hear your impressions.

My scout troop is likely to rent one for an upcoming backcountry trip in July. Check out this review.

http://scoutmastercg.com/satellite-phone-rental-for-wilderness-travel/

http://scoutmastercg.com/satellite-phone-rental-for-wilderness-travel/

“Mobal.com has the clearest, least expensive rental agreements I have found (and I have tried a number of companies over the past 9 years of trips). We’ll spend about $160.00 for a ten day rental, $12.00 per day(including shipping both ways), and $42.00 to insure the phone for the rental period. A satellite phone retails for about $1000.00 so the insurance is a good idea.”

There is also a table summarizing the costs of 5 sat phone providers

I have used a satellite phone rental from Explorer Satellite — http://www.explorersatellite.com/satellite_phone_rentals.htm –a few times in similar circumstances with good results. Reasonable price, good phones and they FedEx it to you before your trip and you send it back to them when you return.

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$85 or $100 per week, plus $2 per minute for air time usage.

I would not rent the Briartek Cerberlink again:
http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=77088

You can rent the Yellowbrick 3:
http://www.yellowbrick-tracking.com
Yellowbrick 3 reviews:
http://w5yk.squarespace.com/yellowbrick/yellowbrick-tracker.html
http://korpijaakko.com/2013/09/22/yellowbrick-yb3-review/

You might find these BPL articles useful –
Two-way Satellite Communications for Backpacking: Introduction,
Phones, Texting.

— Rex

Great ideas all, thank you. I've googled "rent delorme inreach" and "rent satellite phone", and found plenty of vendors, but don't know anything about reliability, best rates, best terms for my needs, etc. I have some good homework to do coming from this.