Which they've now put a hard number on for end of this year in primary latitude band and global first quarter of next year, and they've gone ahead and filed with FCC for permission to activate polar satellites which depend on it [0]. If we were talking years out sure, but this is an early launch for something they're promising in <6 months and looks more like a matter of regulatory approval. They're launching satellites with updated optical links regularly and look to be reaching MVP for mesh density at this point. Obviously anyone who'd depend on using it blue water would wait for that to be ready, but in terms of what they're aiming for global is absolutely the target and always has been.
We'll see if they their mesh fulfils its promises in the next couple of years. If it does and there's ocean coverage which is reasonably robust, I think we'll see prices rise accordingly though...
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0: https://licensing.fcc.gov/myibfs/download.do?attachment_key=...