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by __michaelg 3779 days ago
This actually exists in some countries. E.g. in Europe there are (were?) several companies selling modem/ISDN+satellite bundles. All the upstream and parts of the downstream would travel through land-line while larger downloads would be routed via the satellite. This also saves you from needing to have relatively expensive satellite upstream equipment.

Otherwise, with GEO/GSO satellites there is no way to get below ~280ms round-trip times.