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This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service
(www.howtogeek.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
LoRa has been around for a while trying to break through with different devices, some of it does seem useful, but it's a tough sell to invest in something without knowing where the network will go. A carrier model or something else, maybe subsidies, is needed.
Not much bandwidth to know do much beyond text, so use-cases are probably very limited already.