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Worse than not having competition right now, it isn't even close to having a viable competition, and if one would arise it probably wouldn't be European. And EU is not in great position to change that.

Not to worry, cos I've already heard idiotic European multinational company executives talk about investing into Starlink as an alternative for fibre. Y'know, the technology famously better in every possible way than Starlink. There will always be an absolute twat who needlessly buys that crap.

Every accusation is a confession.

Probably this helps to solve the mystery of why Starlink started to look like a reliable support to Ukraine for a while.

There is IRIS2 but I’m not sure when it’ll be fully ready

Sikorski - not a name to mess with

IRIS2 wants to be a competitor in the defence space. Still several years away from having coverage to actually compete , but this is likely to push it rapidly up the EU funding ladder. It's basically an IRIS2 "this is our business case" www.euspa.europa.eu/eu-space-pro...

Its a good start - but my understanding is that it doesn't have enough coverage, and the satellites are too high - meaning the terminals are big, expensive and heavy for drones to use.

Trump literally said he would nerf* them when bought by foreign countries, didn't he? *