[mrweasel]

I won't suggest that you can't find situation where having Starlink wouldn't be nice, but as another comment suggests: It's increasingly a niche product. Starlink may not be able to survive on being a product that provides internet access for campers and rural populations. That market might not be large enough to sustain the Starlink satellite fleet. There are entire countries where even to most remote areas have at least 2G cell service and fiber is frequently available even out in the country side.

Defence contracts are more likely than anything to be what keeps the satellites in orbit.

[latchkey]

> It's increasingly a niche product.

I'd argue it is going to go the other way. It is going to find more and more broad usage over time.

[mrweasel]

There's going to be more and more use cases, but only in select geographical areas. There's no real reason to pick Starlink over e.g. 5G, when 5G is cheaper and cover 99% of your locations. You can then pick Starlink, microwave, or 2G (if you don't need a lot of data) for those special cases where 5G doesn't have coverage.

Then you have the truly remote areas where you have no choice, it's Starlink or OneWeb, but that's still a niche.

[latchkey]

The U.S. recreational vehicle market is valued at approximately $23.57 billion and accounts for nearly 92% of the North American market.

Seems like an opportunity to me.