In a perfect world, everyone is perfectly knowledgeable and prepared for any eventuality and nothing bad and unexpected ever happens at all.

May I remind you what world are we living in?

Denying emergency comms to people who didn't buy specialized hardware because "they should have prepared better" sounds like social darwinism to me.

Especially in an age when everyone has in their pocket a smartphone that's crammed full of advanced RF tech. Starlink has Direct to Cell on new sats, iPhones can use GEO satcom - what's your excuse?

There's LTE from space already btw in Australia. Will one day be a carrier requirement.