4) No they won't, because having this available is actually good for them. The bandwidth you can get from satellite to a handset with a tiny antenna is puny. E

4) No they won't, because having this available is actually good for them. The bandwidth you can get from satellite to a handset with a tiny antenna is puny. Everyone is going to want to have a proper data plan instead. But having this as fallback means that you can get some baseline service anywhere (outdoors). And this will actually be amazing for the existing operators, because many of them have service availability requirements for emergency operation, and they have to spend a lot of money maintaining cell towers with no users in remote locations. Starlink as a backstop means they can tear those down.