Originally Posted By TomD
Globalstar is a sat phone network. Two sat phone rental sites I checked recently have downgraded using Globalstar. One quit using them completely, the other says "30% reliability" and recommends using Iridium instead.

No idea how that will affect SPOT since the signals are different-data v. voice, but it doesn't sound encouraging.


The sat phone service is a totally different from the SPOT service. A simple Google would've cleared that up before posting FUD on a forum.