[kavalg]

I see some possible problems:

- IMHO, price could be prohibitive for many use cases (e.g. water meters)

- Signal strength could be an issue for urban environments (e.g. inside buildings)

- There aren't many small business use cases for IoT connectivity that does beyond WiFi (both wrt range and power budget). What I have seen is that there are usually several big players (e.g. utilities, municipality, factories) that at some point deploy LoRa based or similar connectivity. LoRa can actually cover a huge area with just a handful of self operated gateways (similar to Helium in this respect).

[plgonzalezrx8]

Why would you need a satellite connection in an urban environment?

[kavalg]

There are some things that make urban IoT connectivity harder than in the open field.

- Wave paths are more complex (buildings, multi path propagation etc). Hence base stations need to be positioned more densely.

- Finding optimal locations for base stations and contracting the building/land owners is not straightforward.

- Using the less congested, licensed spectrum instead of the crowded ISM bands may be preferable in the city.