Orbit Over Obsolescence: How Satellite Constellations Are Replacing Cell Towers One Layer at a Timeby Clarence OxfordLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025For much of the history of modern telecommunications, networks have been built from the ground up - literally. Once defined by ground-based coverage grids, today's communications systems are evolving into top-down orbital ecosystems. With each added satellite, Starlink doesn't build toward city center throughput. Latency is low enough (typically <50 ms) to enable video conferencing, large file transfers, remote editing, and even real-time collaboration - features unthinkable for legacy satellite systems limited by geosynchronous delay. An age where infrastructure lives not in trenches or towers, but in the low-Earth sky above all of us.