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by hooper 2185 days ago
No. If you look at the map you'll see that there's an equally sized coverage gap at each pole. I don't know if any reliable source has stated whether they will put any satellites in orbits that can cover the poles, but I imagine it's a pretty low priority commercially.

There is already some polar coverage from the Iridium network, which uses orbits with higher inclination.