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There's always the option to turn off your phone entirely, leave it at home, or simply buy a dumb phone incapable of using these new satellite features.

There's always going to be that one person blasting music in the wilderness, just because some people want to be disconnected doesn't mean we should eschew progress towards tech that can save peoples' lives.



> turn off your phone entirely, leave it at home, or simply buy a dumb phone

It's not the same; that's just play-acting, and one will not be able to pretend one doesn't know that.




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