[oceanplexian]

The word monopoly doesn’t mean “Only one company makes the best product”. It means that a company completely corners a market and uses its position to prevent others from competing.

There are plenty of space launch providers. There are plenty of other constellations (OneWeb, Iridium, etc). In fact, ironically, SpaceX is doing the opposite of what a monopoly would do and selling the competition cheap tickets on their own launch vehicles. It would be the equivalent of Apple letting Samsung sell phones in an Apple Store.

[pnpnp]

But AFAIK, those other constellations still aren’t targeting consumers(?)

I should have clarified, but from a consumer standpoint, I think there’s still only one real choice at the moment.