Amazon is actively building a competing constellation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Leo

They have about 400 satellites already in orbit. It's not available for public sale yet but I believe they're close.

Amazon Leo is currently launching satellites. They have 396 in orbit but haven't started service. The constellation is going to be lots smaller than Starlink with 3236 total.

AST SpaceMobile is planning cellular in space. I think it is supposed to be faster than Starlink Direct-to-Cell but slower than regular Starlink. It uses fewer, 12 currently, 45 in 2027, and 248 total, larger and higher satellites.

China has two large 10,000+ constellations planned with hundreds already launched.

Amazon is working on their own constellation (which they renamed LEO for some reason); it's looking like it will have some availability ~next year. There are lots of others (Qianfan, OneWeb, AST SpaceMobile) somewhere along in development/deployment but none of those seem likely to offer consumer internet any time soon.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_internet_constellation?#Constellations

Funny how everyone said Starlink would fail, that it couldn't be done. Elon took the risk and it's so successful that you want to reward someone else for achieving it.

Ask Claude to build one for you for free.

I think the non-Elon version is called traditional infrastructure + 5G towers.