I talked to a guy yesterday who was looking forward to Starlink GA so he could get reliable uplink from an arduino sensor array on a boat used to service aquaculture farms in the middle of the ocean.
I'm pretty optimistic about how much of the world this is going to connect.
That makes little sense to me. Satellite links have been around for ages. They are totally fine for an application like that where latency is no issue.
Maybe said person is pushing many megabytes/month of data and not thrilled about data pricing from iridium or whatever other company. Or maybe they want to switch and support competition to decrease prices?
It's kind of an odd choice unless significant power/energy is available. An iridium modem + Arduino doesn't need all that much power, but the starlink phased array antenna does.
I'm pretty optimistic about how much of the world this is going to connect.