Really anything is better than what’s currently available in the rural US. Having grown up there I’m kind of mad that we give so much spectrum to cell companies who block people from setting up terrestrial radio networks in places like this.
Couldn’t you pay for more than one account and combine them?
Or are you saying the cap for an entire satellite is 20GB per month?
https://www.satelliteinternet.com/resources/unlimited-satell...
We can argue about whether latency matters for most people, but it's not going to go anywhere.
Any houses for sale nearby?
Sometimes I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing?
But if the only way to find out what your homework is is a website, and that homework is posted as a multimegabyte PDF (this is how it's working for my kids, not a hypothetical), then lack of an available internet connection immediately affects your ability to effectively attend school, for example.
Now we can have a discussion about whether school is necessary for a fulfilling childhood, of course. :)
I'm haven't looked into the economics of running fiber everywhere, as compared to launching an extensive constellation of satellites but I will note that SpaceX has the competitive advantage of having at-cost access to reusable rockets, compared to an outside party paying SpaceX market rates for transit to space.