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Insurance is to make you whole financially after the fact not to response to a life and death emergency in the moment. This theory has been tried in at least on
by michaelmrose 4y ago
Insurance is to make you whole financially after the fact not to response to a life and death emergency in the moment. This theory has been tried in at least one location wherein you were expected to pay annually for fire service or the fire department wouldn't put out your house and would instead insure that the fire didn't spread to the paying customers while they watched your home burn.
It's abhorrent. We ensure cell phones can always call 911 even without a plan for instance which unlike insurance is a nearly identical situation. The logical thing to do is just take it out of the hands of service providers by always requiring carriage of such a call in all circumstances and expecting OEMs/service providers to make back that money on device or service wherein such a device includes that function.
- mc32 4y agoI would accept your argument if all handsets had this functionality built in. As it is now, only forthcoming devices from one MFG is availing this as an additional paid service with free introductory period. If I had an Iridium handset and the sub ran out and I was adrift, would I still be able to make an emergency call? On the other hand maybe let it fallback as a PLB.
- michaelmrose 4y agoIf the law said you must provide carriage for that call as it does for terrestrial 911 you would have the option of exiting the US market or doing it.