This is a commercial, privately owned, satellite network. It will probably be available world wide, at least that seems to be the plan. You could compare it to

This is a commercial, privately owned, satellite network. It will probably be available world wide, at least that seems to be the plan. You could compare it to Microsoft, with many critical infrastructure worldwide depending on Windows. Also, a lot of the fiber used for the internet is provided by private companies, a very important network being owned by an Indian company. Then, there are already multiple satellite networks for positioning (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BDS). Then there are a bunch of spy satellites. So I don't really understand the problem for non-Americans, which I am too.