[Scoundreller]

What I’m looking forward to is low-cost, mid-bandwidth and ultra-high-latency store-and-forward LEO satellite constellations.

Something that you can use in the middle of anywhere and send/receive text news, messages and short voice recordings. Maybe a handful of photos per day if you want to point your antenna to the sky manually and follow the satellite for a few minutes for max bandwidth on an upload.

There’s a few projects out there, but still out of reach of the consumer because I guess... they can charge more to a corporate user.

[ultrarunner]

This is interesting. Do you mean services like Iridium, or something newer? What projects did you have in mind?

[Scoundreller]

This is one I’ve seen:

https://www.keplercommunications.com

Iridium is a « live » network... with much high costs of construction and operation.

[lxgr]

Myriota [1] sounds very interesting. It's exactly what GP describes if I'm not mistaken!

[1] https://myriota.com/

[haarts]

What would you use it for? Some IoT project?

[Scoundreller]

A cabin or hike without (or poor) cell service where this would provide just enough connectivity to real life.

I like the idea of being able to read the news and maintain comms but can live without live 2-way video.

Also cool to imagine there will be a nano/micro cubesats with a enough gbs in SSDs circling earth every couple hours making that possible.

Could have different levels if priorities to balance supply/demand.