Thread: Garmin inReach - GPS, SOS, two way satelite text communication

Originally Posted by Gillie

A comment taken off another forum... I would definitely want this confirmed before I bought one of these.

PLB versus inReach - I suspect for the person that doesn't have a PLB this would be better than not having one...

I would say this is correct. When you first power the unit up for the first time it asks you to register/activate it on Garmins inreach website before continuing.
You can't get past this without activating it I would suspect this means you need to pay at least for one months plan. However I also suspect once activated the unit will work as a GPS even if the plan is suspended.
Will confirm when I managed to get my old unit deactivated and swapped to the new unit