I think the government should really make a big deal out of satellite messengers being cheap and available for all hikers. What if they subsidized them so that

I think the government should really make a big deal out of satellite messengers being cheap and available for all hikers. What if they subsidized them so that you could make emergency calls with no monthly fee? I wonder how many lives they would save if it was so readily available people didn't think of leaving cell range without one?