ROM Communications in Canada makes and sells the “Text Anywhere” device:
Connect via WiFi and web browser with your smart device, laptop, PC, Chromebook, whatever.
You send and receive texts using a web server built into the Text Anywhere device.
It sends and receives 160 character text messages through Iridium satellites. Period. No tracking, no SOS, no GPS.
More info at http://www.textanywhere.ca
I found this through a Wired article, which compares the Text Anywhere to the DeLorme inReach SE:
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/sat-comms/
However, the Wired cost analysis is very incomplete.
— Rex

