40 minute latency is fine for a ton of use cases where you'd want connectivity in the middle of nowhere. Things like reporting the state of remote pump stations

40 minute latency is fine for a ton of use cases where you'd want connectivity in the middle of nowhere. Things like reporting the state of remote pump stations on long pipelines, or data acquisition from animal trackers for example - in those cases you're comparing latency to the time it takes to send someone out in a 4x4 and grab data, not an LTE connection to the mobile network. [Edited to add the pump stations are probably a bad example, as my understanding is that it's pretty routine now to run fibre along the pipe for things data reporting]