Is the $10 'unlimited' Starlink Global Mobile plan coming soon?

Elon Musk has apparently hinted (or at least said, 'that's one of the options') on a podcast recently in respect to the possibility of Starlink launching a global mobile operator.

There are quite a lot of hurdles. There are quite a lot of ifs and maybes. There's a base level question about speed, battery power and coverage.

But.

If anyone could do it, it would be Starlink.

After all, if they can get me 200Mbps uninterrupted ultrafast broadband at 600mph at 33,000ft on a Qatar Airways jet, they can probably manage something reasonably decent when I'm walking along the road.

How the satellite signal bends around windows and through walls, that's... yes, that's another question at the moment. If, however, you've got access to some cellular spectrum, you could offer a hybrid. It appears that's technically what Starlink has got to play with after the EchoStar deal.

There's quite a lot of detail in the PC Mag article I linked above so if you'd like to know more, definitely have a read.

I'm a fan of anything that challenges the status quo of the mobile operator ecosystem, globally. The fact they're still selling 'air time packages' that include minutes, texts and gigabytes... I just... I find it enormously frustrating we haven't seen much in the way of innovation there for decades.