content: The problem with this is that right now the monopolies in charge of telecoms could drop their prices dramatically and still be printing billions of dollars. And there is a major financial commitment to get involved in any sort of competitor. Basically when you're thinking about competing against a monopoly you can't compete against their monopoly level prices, but what they will change their prices to once you enter the market. This is fundamentally why Google Fiber has been more or less a failure. They announce they're coming and will provide greater service at cheaper prices. Everybody rejoices and pledges to sign up by the millions. They spend many months/years and billions of dollars getting set up. And then the day before they officially open for signups Comcast announces they're cutting their prices and improving their services to perfectly match what's being offered. And nobody signs up and those billions of dollars spent getting into the market are wasted. Google Fiber nominally managed to 'compete' yet after operating for more than 5 years in a variety of major cities they ended up with less than 500k customers and are now quietly pulling out of the industry. So yeah I do think low orbit satellite and other such technologies have major potential, but it's not like they'll be competing against the Com "screw everybody and then screw them harder" cast Comcast, but the Comcast that suddenly starts acting like everybody's best friend to customers who are lazy and inertial.