[jcims]

I can't get to their documentation but it looks like it's using LoRa for the RF.

https://blog.semtech.com/satellite-iot-qa-with-swarm

Pretty cool. Just checked coverage over my house using their pass checker and it's already ~50% coverage through the course of the day. No good for realtime alerting but good enough for daily reporting.

[googlryas]

Yep, it seems like you get a transmit window every ~2 hours max. All in all this service is much more reasonable(cost/antenna size/transmit rate/power) than I expected. You can basically send 2kb/day from a large chunk of the world(with a view of the sky) for $5/mo. Somehow even cheaper than m2m cell plans I've encountered, though granted I haven't looked at services in the past few years.

[delabay]

Helium has a competitive Lora network at 100x less cost, in western Europe and US.

Ducks