> He knows everyone hates existing telecoms.

Not true everywhere. I'm paying < $40/month for a 100 MBit connection and I don't hate my telecom.

I'll hate on Comcast enough for two people, then. Or ten, or a thousand. It's unbounded, really.

Competition makes a big difference. Just over a year ago with Google Fiber rearing up, my ISP offered 150Mbps for $35. This year with Google Fiber downsizing, the big American ISPs are back to their duopoly: 25Mbps for $40 or 10Mbps for $30. Hopefully SpaceX is able to force them to lower rates for everyone.

It's not going to replace internet for cities/towns. Think of the latency!

It is directed towards middle of nowhere areas where nobody provides fiber.

If the satellites are in LEO, latency won't be that bad. At 700km height mentioned elsewhere in the thread, added latency might be 10-20ms based on halving the numbers at https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r100277-Whats-the-latency-p... (from 16 years ago).

30ms of latency is mentioned in the article, due to the low orbital altitude.

Which telecom provider?