It’s more useful as a backup in case your internet goes down, for things that need 1 or 2 backups for high connectivity uptime

Even the 50k sat max size constellation isn’t anything for dense urban areas. That’s never been the intended market.

Thousands of satellites are immune to anti satellite missile, with only a few dozen geosats one country could blow up those sats and cut a few ocean cables and cut off most of the International transocean internet access. That’s a good thing, because it makes it so that any nation preparing for war isn’t tempted to cut off internet because it wouldn’t work anyway.

You have permafrost melting so northern tundra areas will be worse to build on going forward. But the context is tiny rural places that don’t have roads and you travel by plane or snowmobile, they’re not getting cable.

It’s the only high speed solution if you’re more than 30 miles away from the nearest town and you live completely surrounded by trees or hills. 4g internet is pretty good for home use and that covers most rural areas but that’s not large amounts of data usually. It’s good for a lot of edge cases like open ocean or really remote areas. And crucially it can do that with very low lag unlike any other traditional geosat space internet.

Didn’t they just drop the startup equipment costs a lot?

They make it literally impossible, even if they give you settings to toggle off, they’ll just introduce a new feature that comes conveniently already selected yes.

Weapons like Gungnir are popular names, Lævateinn is a little hard to spell though.