there's too many autodialing hiker rescue scams these days tbh
True. Yesterday my grandson wanted to save me from the mountaintop if I give him a million dollars. I almost did it but I remembered that I'm not in the mountains and neither do I have kids, much less grandkids.
they could have cell service for a call or text but not data and data would be needed for a map app. Although I think they could have thought ahead and downloaded an offline map of the area and maybe that would work with GPS and no data service.
But than again, GPS in the mountains might be not so good when you are in a valley or something
Mobile phone location data is almost never satellite GPS, they universally use cellular tower triangulation
Luckily the rescuers had a side hustle where they'd scam Chinese immigrants by telling them their visa is no longer valid.
