To clarify for those that may have missed it -

These satellites mimic 5G so most existing 5G phones should be compatible without additional hardware.

The beams are REALLY low bandwidth (7MB per beam and the beams are “very big”), and that bandwidth is shared with the whole beam. You will only use this for emergencies, at least for now.

The point will be to expand coverage in areas that it may be difficult to add coverage. It won’t replace or augment regular towers.

It will only allow texting later this year, and they expect to scale up to voice and data next year as well as IOT - whatever that means since they broke it out separately.