SpaceX - Satellite internet starting 2019

GordonThree wrote:
This is a boon for developing nations, those who don't have the infrastructure to bring Internet to their schools and community centers.

The United States has no excuse but our own greed for lack of broadband Internet being available in every nook and cranny of the Republic.

Yes, even remote campgrounds deep in Southern Utah or the mountains of West Virginia have plentiful fiber optic cable within a mile at the most. The problem is that fiber is dark, and the company that owns it has no interest in making it available until the right grant package or other highly profitable opportunity comes along.

Satellite Internet won't help us here in the states.

Of course it will help us in the states. My brother lives here along the wasatch front and is 200 feet too far from the comcast box and they won't run it. He uses a slow wireless connection now. If he can get fiber speed internet from a satellite, he'd be a very happy camper. I have a brother-in-law in southern Utah that would kill for a better solution than the single cable provider.

Now, take a few of those campgrounds that are remote or all these people here that are using mifi with verizon and give them a satellite option.

If it is affordable (even at the CG level) and fast, it's a big deal.