Comment by mpweiher

They are:

https://www.techradar.com/phones/network-providers/europes-m...

And Europe can get things done if it wants to. Ariane had reached 50% of commercial GTO launches in 2010.

...the Arianespace consortium "all but invented the commercial launch business in the 1980s" principally "by ignoring U.S. government assurances that the reusable U.S. space shuttle would make expendable launch vehicles like Ariane obsolete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_launch_market_competitio...

SpaceX has disrupted that, but once the innovation is out there it can be replicated.