"Yuppie 911" GPS beacon allows boneheads to summon help.

[dicion]

You can buy a prepaid phone for less than $50 and a year of service for $75 to $100. And a cell phone can call 911 without service.

Incorrect

A cell phone can call 911 without a calling plan, a contract, etc, but it still needs to be able to talk to a tower. Any tower.
No tower = no call, period.

In this usage of the term, 'service' means active communications with a tower. If there's no towers in the area, there's no service, and no calls can be made, emergency or otherwise.

They were saying that in these remote areas, there is no 'service', as in, there are no towers for the phones to talk to.

[boomerang]

"a year of service for $75 to $100"
In this usage of the term, "service" means a service plan. Obviously. Or so I thought.

The Spot GPS Messenger works in the boonies. Great. Like I said, it is a niche product.

[chabouk]

The Spot GPS Messenger works in the boonies. Great. Like I said, it is a niche product.

I would say it's a specialty product, but not niche.

It "works in the boonies", which is the entire point: a great deal of recreational activity takes place where there is zip-zero-nada cell phone service. The nature photographer in Arkansas that I mentioned would have died if he hadn't had a GPS beacon. I camp every year about a mile from where he was injured, and I can guarantee you that getting a cell phone signal means making a 30 minute drive.

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[MustangGlocker]

SIA,

John with Breitling is as good a match as Jeff Gordon or Michael Shumacher with Tag Heuer.
His house in FL is in a development with other pilots and his 707 sits under a "planeport" next to his house. That's an unusual sight.

[Abraham]

I'd love to own a Gulfstream jet and chortle at those contemptibles who criticized my ownership.

If you make millions or billions you can spend it as you like - free enterprise at it's finest.

[The Annoyed Man]

MustangGlocker:

John Travolta pitches for Breitling. I saw a paparazzi photo of him and he was
wearing a Breitling ball cap.

John Travolta is a licensed pilot with all the best tickets punched, IIRC.

He has 2 jets of his own:
A full size jet (707?) that he refers to as his family car.
And something like a Gulfstream 10 passenger which he refers to as his sports car.

So that's where some of those millions go that he makes from his movies.

SIA

It is a 707, and he is certified as a Quantas pilot, and his 707, although owned by him, is painted in Quantas colors... ...or it used to be at any rate. That was maybe years ago when I read that.