Iridium (what?) NEXT, page-9

https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/03/spacex-satellite-internet-2019/

And here's SpaceX vision
And some thoughts, for which I would appreciate some feedback:

- The timeline described in SpaceX stand is lagging behind SAS by a few years. Eternity in establishing a communication network, or is it? Is being first to penetrate the industry that important?
Yahoo had a search engine before Google. Now they're struggling to keep their core business (from 20 years ago). The search engine war is ancient history.
Netscape lost all their business to a much inferior product, which isn't the browser of choice anymore! Explorer owes its existence to the bully strategy of MS' Windows.
And I could go on. Facebook wasn't the first. Neither were EBay nor Amazon.

So, either SAS is completely under the radar which works for its benefit, or a takeover is inevitable down the road when enough risk factors are taken out of the equation.   

One must also remember that this coverage doesn't really tell what's the actual progress level SpaceX is in. But given their track record they can move fast. Making lots of mistakes on the way, but make fast progress nevertheless.

Thoughts?