Marten wrote on Aug 8^th, 2013 at 3:57pm:

IMO it is time to check out all the options and the present cost  of each. Inreach uses the Iridium satellite network which has profited from Globalstar's problems with two way communication in the last five years. Globalstar has now replaced enough satellites that they are back to good two- way communications. All Spot devices were using the Globalstar system and could easily send the messages. The verification that it had been sent took a while but now that things have been restored the "Message sent" light takes only a few seconds.

Marten, I got caught thinking my Spot had a message "sent" light but it was really a message "sending" light.

I that what yours is too?