[somethingwitty1]

You mean like the numerous space-based services that have been making money over the past ~30 years?

[anthonyskipper]

I mostly remember them going out of business like Iridium did in 1999. Clearly the market wasn't there as no one I knew used satellite services for anything other than TV, and that model failed against broadband. Starlink is first time regular consumers like my family members actually paid for a satellite service.