[david38]

In live in the Bay Area and can’t wait for this. I want to be able to have internet in all the dead spots in California, if which there are a LOT.

We have lots of National Forest / BLM land and it usually has almost no reception.

[mattbk1]

I go to the wilderness to get away from mobile phone reception.

[jdietrich]

I've got bad news for you:

https://www.iridium.com/solutions/land/

[tnorthcutt]

My understanding is that it won’t be particularly portable - the base stations are fairy large.

[txcwpalpha]

Last I saw, it requires an antenna that’s about the size of a television satellite dish. Maybe portable enough to stick on an RV or campervan, but almost certainly not something you can take with you while hiking or backwoods camping.

[sneak]

Sounds like it could easily sit in the bed of a pickup truck, or on the roof of just about any large cargo vehicle (like perhaps a Sprinter).

If they aren’t too expensive I hope to have one on a rural property as well as on the RV/truck I drive to get there.