Well yeah and they are hardwired to at least one physically wired network: the energy grid. Why they don't have decent cabled inter/intranet is beyond me.

I don't think satellite internet is that much cheaper but, I might be wrong. I am no network engineer. Anyone who CAN comment on that?

This is really interesting certainly given the recent hack of sattelite modems: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/satellite-outage-kno...

This is extra interesting given the recent (un?)importance of Telegram in the Ukraine conflict. EFF wrote about it recently here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/telegram-harm-reductio...