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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.
Yes but people in cities getting it makes no sense. Unless your a neither town.
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