Mr. Declan Campbell:

There is very little that can be done about latency. People may not have caught the earlier analogies. I work in miles. The GEO satellites are 22,000 miles above Earth. They work at the speed of light. It takes time for a signal to go up 22,000 miles, back down to Earth, and then back to the satellite and back down to Earth. The LEO satellites are only 600 miles above Earth. Therefore, the time it takes is much shorter. The time it takes at the speed of light for a signal to go to a GEO satellite is approximately 600 ms, which is just over half a second. The latency time in the context of a LEO satellite is about 35 ms. The latter is not something you are going to notice. On a call like this, however, half a second is noticeable. The basic broadband needs will be covered by either technology.