Zero households. This system is meant to communicate with one ground station at a time, and only for a very brief window. It's really only good for downlinking bulk data that was collected by the satellite, not Internet access.

I've seen numbers of about 2.7Mbps[1] for average peak traffic rates per subscriber on cable, which would give you about 37,000 users if I didn't mess up my bits and bytes.

But as the FSO link is point to point, you would need something like a high-altitude platform station (HAPS) like a blimp, UAVs with RF or a RF tower on the ground to receive the FSO signal, and then broadcast it to many users.

[1]https://www.nctatechnicalpapers.com/Paper/2018/2018-analysis...

You forgott latency...not usable for rt communication.

You're dreaming, buddy. 5G can't even be successfully utilized in the richest nation on earth (U.S.). This brand new tech is decades from customer applications. Cool display of technology, but I won't get excited over something that won't improve the lives of anyone except the military industrial complex and its benefactors while internet services and cell services continue to degrade every year.