Comment by vel0city

> If they were able (highly unlikely) to capture that market in the US alone through Satellite Cellular service, it would be huge revenue stream

There's practically no way there's enough RF spectrum to handle that many clients from even LEO. There's a reason why carriers are moving to smaller and smaller and smaller cells, and places like sports venues have highly directional antenna arrays to handle the number of active clients. Will there be customers? Sure. Probably a lot! Will it be an actually massive chunk of the overall subscriber base mostly using their networks? Not a chance.

They can't even get capacity up enough to support their rural customers on practically idealized antenna array hardware.

> Setting up data centers in orbit (easier said than done) would be another huge revenue stream.

What applications demand that kind of premium on cost of running? Why choose that instead of terrestrial datacenters? What's the overall use-case for why one should bother deploying their applications into a space datacenter? I'm genuinely asking. Aside from needing to ensure low-ish latency to the most remote parts of the world and being willing to pay whatever to have that, I don't get it.