A personal locator beacon can sit in a go-bag, hunting pack, life raft, or work vehicle for years, ready for the day cellular coverage disappears and the situation turns serious. The short answer to do PLBs need subscriptions is no: a properly registered PLB does not require a monthly service...

A pump station stops reporting at 2:00 a.m. A research team changes its route after a washout. A vessel needs to confirm its position before weather closes in. In each case, satellite IoT provides a way to send the small but critical pieces of information that cellular networks cannot carry...

A cellular hotspot can feel like the obvious choice until a crew reaches the last few miles of pavement, a storm takes down a tower, or a field site sits beyond the carrier map. The real question in a Starlink Roam versus cellular hotspot decision is not which device is...