Would be useful for emergency text-messaging after a disaster, though.
Disaster is probably the least useful use case for this. The satellite would be overloaded from all the people requesting help. A far more plausible use case is if you got lost hiking or something.
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Disaster is probably the least useful use case for this. The satellite would be overloaded from all the people requesting help. A far more plausible use case is if you got lost hiking or something.
Or multicast down, but probably couldn’t get more than a few kbps without killer expenses.
Outernet was an application of this concept:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othernet
But reality is that cellular coverage world wide gets better and better.