"One such project is OneWeb, which looks to build a network for global broadband access and plans to launch the first of its 700 satellites next year.
Meanwhile, Boeing already has a plan to develop, launch and operate a constellation of 3,000 satellites in low Earth orbit
Last year, Musk's SpaceX filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch its own constellation of 800 satellites."
Call your girlfriend up on your ordinary handset from your yacht in the very middle of the Pacific..!
Or from the top of Everest.
Just watched a show on the Science Channel — space junk is going to become a huge factor in the next 20 or so years. Time to develop giant dustpan for LEO.
I’m sooo excited, finally a cheap way to launch congress in orbit; that would solve sooo many problems.