OneWeb didn't invent the idea, either. In fact, SpaceX once partnered with OneWeb, but OneWeb wasn't on board with Musk's crazily ambitious plans for the LEO co

OneWeb didn't invent the idea, either. In fact, SpaceX once partnered with OneWeb, but OneWeb wasn't on board with Musk's crazily ambitious plans for the LEO constellation, and OneWeb's constellation is kind of lame because it doesn't do satellite-to-satellite communications. There was a rash of these schemes in the 1990s. Teledesic was the most similar one, and they went bankrupt and the constellation never launched. Voice-centric Iridium and Globalstar did launch, though, but they also went bankrupt but continued operating and have been refreshing their constellations. Iridium does sat-to-sat and is thus more capable, but Globalstar does not (they do "bent pipe" ala OneWeb). And there's also Telestar's LEO constellation also being launched nowadays. It's sat-to-sat and is closer to Teledesic in size than SpaceX's Starlink.