There's no broadband here, just cheap narrowband for phone, messaging and data. $1 phones will connect via a dish so no expensive satphones required.
The low-cost, high-portability potential for mining, shipping and aviation, which can easily afford to connect directly to sats, is huge. Site setup, tracking and blackbox recording can all be handled more rasily, cheaply and reliably than current. If we didn't have to rely on blackboxes or physically finding them intact, we wouldn't still be wondering what happened to MH370.
For more technical detail, read up PeterKing's contributions. They're the ones in blue font; can't miss them
