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I essentially pay a bunch of money to garmin so i can text people while camping and offroading and send tiny amounts of data to update my position on a map. I
by katbyte 3y ago
I essentially pay a bunch of money to garmin so i can text people while camping and offroading and send tiny amounts of data to update my position on a map.
I got a iPhone 14 for a backup satellite sos method.
In Canada there are 100s of km of roads between towns with zero cellphone service, often for hours at a time. Having space based communication in a cellphone to fall back on would be extreme valuable and life saving to many. I know I already pay a bundle for it and many of my outdoorsy friends do the same. I can be driving to a friends house a few hours away and be out of signal for half of it, being able to call for help if I encounter or get into an accident is pretty important and building cell towers would be far more expensive then some satellites
- Aerbil313 3y ago> and building cell towers would be far more expensive then some satellites Historic.
- katbyte 3y agoif by historic you think this statement is somehow extremely wrong, i don't think you realize how big canada is, how many cell towers it takes to get good coverages in mountainous areas, and how many small communities exist in the middle of nowhere and how remote they are - many of these towns don't even have cell coverage. Cell coverage is simply is never going to happen for these areas and the roads to get to them as the telecommunication company will never recoup their costs.
- Aerbil313 3y agoNo, the opposite - historic because it's true.
- user_7832 3y ago> send tiny amounts of data to update my position on a map If you could clarify- is this data like mobile data/internet, or data in a literal sense? Because if you’re SMSing your GPS coordinates to a friend’s phone you could stick to only SMS.