I agree. I think the capacity on paper is very impressive, and the trans-continental capacity will be useful. I'm just more skeptical that they'll find a market

I agree. I think the capacity on paper is very impressive, and the trans-continental capacity will be useful. I'm just more skeptical that they'll find a market willing to pay the price it will cost easily in the residential market. Satellite internet is more expensive than cable, and I don't see any way that will change considering their hardware will be more expensive than the current satellite internet hardware (just based on phased array). 1Gbps cable isn't unheard of these days, but the question is whether there's really a market for it. At some point you are past a speed where it has any material effect on what you're doing, and SX needs a small amount of customers paying a large amount of money due to the equipment costs. What they can't have is lots of customers with 50Mbps plans that have identical equipment to someone paying 10x more for 1Gbps.