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Yea no. This company might even sincerely want to do its own constillation yet I doubt that. This is just to give the optics of 'see! Musk isn't a monopoly!' along with 'see! we're not trump's puppets! We're fighting against President Musk!'
Same as their halfhearted attempts at laying fiber.
Did you read the article? This is a ground based system.
google laid fiber to make the others panic and impliment fiber