Re: What's the problem?
I live in Oregon less than 5 miles from Interstate 5. I'm less than 2 miles from the city limits of the largest city in the County, and the County is the size of the state of Connecticut. We get (sometimes and only recently) 4G cell at my house which is on a ridgeline. Until 2 years ago I was the last house that could get DSL, my neighbor was out of range. We got 500K download, 128K upload speeds for $45/Month. Today, by a stroke of good fortune (being located along the path used by the local electric utility to reach one of their substations) I have fiber connectivity at 50Mbps for $50/Mo., but many of my neighbors (anyone off the main road) can't get it. No cable anywhere close (not that I would pay for cable in any case). The company I work for is even more excited, as our business is wildfire smoke detection, usually from currently unmanned forest fire lookout towers. (Can't get people to go spend time in a tower without their precious internet, and no there is no cell phone coverage, cable, or DSL (or in many cases utility power) out there. Currently we build long-haul microwave networks to link and serve the towers, which is expensive to build and to maintain, and any fault in a chain of towers can result in "blinding" the system over large areas - each tower covers up to 400 square miles. It will take a little work to run Starlink from an offline solar system, but the cost isn't prohibitive in light of reliability and bandwidth availability. I am sure there are many, many other applications that have similar requirements. Home users streaming 4K Netflix isn't the only user base out there. There is a whole lot more of America outside of urban services range than you think.