Taipei wants to make its communications networks less vulnerable to Chinese attack. Starlink isn't an option because of Musk's business ties to China and his company's refusal to relinquish control in a joint venture. And Eutelsat's OneWeb constellation of low Earth satellites isn't up to snuff, according to technology minister Wu Cheng-wen:

"We found that their bandwidth is too small for real applications," the minister said about OneWeb. "So far as I know, the company is in financial problems at this moment, so they have a [delay] in developing the second generation satellites.

Bezos' Kuiper is still just a promise but is expected to begin offering service from its constellation of low Earth orbit satellites next year.