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Unless you mean a village with just two houses, typical villages are covered by cellular networks just fine. Starlink looks like a system for people in deserts or people in third world where LTE doesn't exist. Not sure if this is big enough market.


There are huge swathes of rural Australia with non existent or very spotty mobile reception same with broadband band other than sat that is geo stationery which are frankly garbage.


The US DoD has paid SpaceX to proof of concept having hundreds of Mb/s of low latency connectivity in fighter aircraft. Lucrative market based on historical DoD satellite communications contracts.


It's gonna be great for their drones too. Perhaps for whole EVTOL market.


LTE is not satisfactory for home internet in the US. See https://www.verizonwireless.com/internet-devices/verizon-jet...


Depends on how they handle political issues. Cell networks are beholden to the local government, as they have to build infra there.

This might put more pressure on national firewalls.




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