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by ianburrell 739 days ago
Iridium and Globalstar aren't geostationary. They are LEO not much higher than Starlink.

Starlink is doing direct-to-cell. Talking to existing phones requires a large antenna. The bandwidth for each device is slow, not enough for mobile data, but better than Iridium. I think they recently showed off voice calls.