High speed bandwidth connecting remote areas will have a big impact. Government wants it for ships, forest lookout towers, epa to watch waters and animals.<p>Also remote cell sites can be provided with uplinks via starlink. My parents small town has 1 tower that provides everything from limited internet, cable and cell service via microwave. The community center only has internet because of it.<p>Dialup is almost dead everywhere, and basically useless on modern websites.<p>Millions of americans only have cell service as their only internet, expensive and bandwidth capped. I replaced my folks hotspot with starlink, its been great for them and when I work from their home. Teams works fine over it.<p>I'd also expect comcast coverage zones that exclude a few houses will be using it. And areas lacking DSL service.<p>What I'm looking forward to is when sats have sat to sat communications to route traffic around the world.<p>Good times.
My brother was just notified that his monthly subscription cost was going down - he was shocked.<p>He actually uses Starlink in a major city that only has Comcast cable Internet. The service was so slow and unreliable that he was unable to work from home. He happily switched to Starlink and flipped Comcast the bird.
This feels like a capability that will have giant impact across geopolitics which is not immediately clear.<p>They mentioned backhaul, I wonder what is the upper bound of scale, will it be big enough to complement/replace submarine cables at some point.