I don’t think my options are particularly unusual… my options for broadband are 5/0.3Mbps DSL, 25/5Mbps LTE with a punishing bandwidth cap, or 25/1Mbps satellite internet with a 350GB cap.
Friend on Frontier had a 5Mbps plan on a node so oversubscribed that in almost a decade he only saw it get past 1Mbps once… at 3AM one night. The state attorney got involved.
For a modern house where we might want to do something crazy like watch TV while someone’s working none of these will really get us there.
With Starlink I usually get ~150/30Mbps and no caps.
And this isn't "remote Yukon wilderness" or something. I'm right in the middle of three of the largest cities in the country... an hour away from two of them, four from the third. I can get to like 6 different Costcos and three Ikeas within an hour's drive.
All the people who waited for months to get one show there's a market
You forget all the traditional users of satellite Internet. Islands, Planes, Antarctica, regular ships, rockets, drones etc.
Right now it's priced cheap enough for some GA uses.
It’s a game changer in remote Australia, Yukon and Alaska, etc etc