[matthewdgreen]

Clearly rural broadband has a reasonable market. Focusing specifically on cellular phones: my iPhone lets me send emergency SOS messages via satellite and doesn't use Starlink. This means that at least the "emergency calling when out of cellular range" piece of the market has competitors (and they're cheap enough that Apple can include two years of service in my phone's price.) I'm not sure how big the discretionary texting/calling/browsing-while-out-of-cellular service market is.

[Scoundreller]

I’m hoping the next iPhone “feature” will be to point your phone at the sky and get an iMessage sync.

Dunno if there’s enough bandwidth actually available to do that (currently or theoretically).

Though iMessage is not graceful with queuing messages when you’re offline. WhatsApp does much better.