Boost is piggybacking on THETELSTRA NETWORK because boost does not have its own network nor spectrum. The reason how boost can offer cheaper services is because it has lower overhead costs due to it not having to maintain a network of its own and everything else. The result is that they are a reseller that can offer cheaper prices for much of the same as telstra can offer up to a point as determined by its contract with telstra.
SAS will not be able to provide much of the same services as other satellite providers like inmarsat, irridium, etc and soon to be up one web, space X, etc. This is because of the severely limited capability of its constellation, they are cheap for a reason. As a result, SAS will notbe able to compete with terrestrial offerings nor with what true global satellites can offer. Instead SAS will have to carve itself a specific niche market serving the most remote impoverished communities. In order to serve those impoverished communities the pearls MUST work using ground networks and spectrums that they do not have, that only telcos can provide. So where is this contract with telcos?
Global sat is a reseller of services and equipment and not a telco with its own spectrum and network. What do people actually expect from them? What use are pearls with no telco connection to a reseller like global sat? No use at all.
So your analogy is not accurate Btrail, not accurate at all.
