Yes, you may recall some controversy a few years back when Musk made some threats along those lines.

There are alternatives if you only need short range, or if you can tolerate high latency. And of course there are fire-and-forget cruise missiles that don't need communications at all.

But there aren't all that many other options. Historically, satellite internet companies like Iridium, Globalstar and Teledesic have not fared well.

Yes but they’ve mostly not been doing that (they probably are selling a lot of dishes) and what’s the alternative?