Trans-pacific on your YACHT..?
Send some email..! Yeah from the middle of the ocean..!
Or do some chat from the top of Everest.
These satellites to make money providing internet for capitalistic reasons, or are they intended to provide internet to the po’, subsidized fully by uncle sugar via free tax money that is totally free and guaranteed?
This would also work to stabilize totalitarian regimes. Imagine Radio Free Europe with the breadth of the World Wide Web. That is what this could be.