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    2 months ago

    I was just thinking that too. Will I ever use it? 99.99% chance no. But to realize I now have a device that could connect anywhere on earth? That’s pretty awesome. I remember back in the early 2000s, our company gave us a satellite phone while we were traveling internationally “for extreme emergencies only” that was something like $16/minute.