I wish they set up stabilized solar powered buoys that could serve as dumb-pipes between satellites. Maybe the speed would be limited, but I don't think ocean-farers are too picky. Latency should still be better than anything GEO-sat-based.
Obstructions should be limited. But this requires overlapping sats in-view.
They would not be going forward deploying 100s of them. They had a test launch of those a year+ ago with a full batch and now every launch only launches with inter-sat links.
Obstructions should be limited. But this requires overlapping sats in-view.