Reposting a comment I made some time ago here: When I was much younger I also felt a profound sense of loss when I found that the Iridium constellation covered

Reposting a comment I made some time ago here: When I was much younger I also felt a profound sense of loss when I found that the Iridium constellation covered the globe. Thankfully our shared thought that you can't be away from everything is not true: caves, anything underwater or dense forests around the world are totally inaccessible for any satellite devices. Also, not sure if you've used any satellite devices but even in most conditions you're still pretty away from things. You have to set up the device with a view of the open sky and wait several minutes for a text-only message of a handful of bytes. Using it in a Costa Rican rainforest was almost impossible. For better or for worse, there are pretty large parts of the Earth where we will have no Internet for most likely our entire lifetimes.