Thanks for address John, I'll look at it. I realise the dual phone is a cell phone as well as a SAt phone, that's why I said it would need to be the close to the same size and price for someone to carry it for very occasional use.
Yes, there are people who could do with such a phone, but there are relatively few. In the US, we've had publicity of hikers getting into trouble and whipping out their cellphones to demand rescues. Those calls generate trouble for the rescue services, but not a lot of revenue. LAst November I ran the Grand Canyon in a kayak. One person brought an aviation handheld communication radio. Its cheaper, no subscription and much more useful in the Canyon, and almost as useful in most of the US. The killer advantage of the radio is your boss (or spouse) can't call!
My boss travels an awful lot, all over the Pacific. He's not interested. I've travelled quite a bit, both for work and pleasure, to some pretty inaccessible places (visiting small Indonesian islands by ferry because the airservice was the wrong day of the week). Yes, I would have taken a phone if one was available, and I would have made some use of it but not much. But that is, I suppose, why I enjoy travel. |
