Antennas are the cheap part of a ground station
Satellite operators need ground stations in places that are difficult to establish a presence in. The dish is rarely what takes eighteen months — it is everything underneath and around it.
What satellites can actually tell you about Somalia
Somalia is one of the least measured countries on earth, and has been photographed from orbit every few days for two decades. The gap between those two facts is where most of the useful work sits.
The satellite hub in another country is costing you a second
Most satellite service sold into Somalia is operated from a hub on another continent. The physics of that decision are not subtle, and they show up in every application that expects a reply.
When satellite is the right answer, and when we will tell you it is not
Satellite is sold hardest to the people who need it least. Four situations where it is genuinely the correct engineering choice — and the cases where we would tell you to take fibre and spend the difference elsewhere.