[nonameiguess]

Military already has this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_Global_SATCOM

The SpaceX edge here is making this kind of thing cheaper and scalable to the point that a global community of hundreds of millions of users can multiplex signals on it, but for a sufficiently well-funded organization with fewer users, it was already possible.

[izend]

The military system is orbiting at 32,000km, the latency is much higher than Starlink.