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A lot of US national parks have cell phone dead zones. Angel's Landing is wildly popular, and dangerous, and most of it and the trail to it don't have service, or very minimal/broken service.

There are PLENTY of areas people go under normal circumstances that don't have sufficient service if there's an emergency.

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Angel's Landing is also incredibly crowded. Unless someone is hiking there under inappropriate conditions, no one's remotely by themselves. And that's pretty true of a lot of areas in national parks generally.

There are use cases although I wonder how many of the people who wouldn't buy a separate device would pay for a hypothetical satellite subscription. But I'm sure some would.

In this case it would’ve be a separate satellite subscription but apart of Apple One’s plan with other incentive offerings

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