On Monday, March 31, 2014 7:37:07 PM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
Why is it ironic that there's no subscription fee for a PLB?

iro·ny noun \ˈī-rə-nē also ˈī(-ə)r-nē\

(second definition)
: a situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that seems to be the opposite of what you expected

Since PLB is better for notifying SARS than SPOT/INREACH, it is strange and funny that it has no subscription fee (of course the initial cost of a PLB is higher than SPOT and SPOT offers tracking).