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by inemesitaffia 14 days ago
Europe isn't the sort of place that would develop this capability
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France has Eutelsat: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutelsat>.

Germany had SES/Astra: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES_Astra>.

The EU as a whole as the Galileo satnav / GPS project: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation_...>.

There are numerous other EU satellite comms providers, though most are aimed at commercial/broadcast services. That's a departure point for satellite-phone or satellite-internet, however.

Europe can and has developed similar and/or precursor capabilities.

The EU can technically do it but they won’t. Starlink dwarfs all the services you mentioned. The EU doesn’t even believe in air conditioning much less making a robust satellite network
Also I'm betting he himself has never bought these services. I signed up here on Intelsat.