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by cameldrv 1886 days ago
For other sat phones and sat internet, if a country makes it illegal, the sat carriers don't provide service when you're in that country.
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What happens if you are in a border area and one country its legal and one country its illegal?
Use decades old techniques to identify your exact location and lock you out? Only interesting question is which side the company picks when the border is disputed.
The country that's banned your service has exhausted almost all its leverage.

As long as you make a moderate effort, so they don't feel inclined to jam your service or shoot down your satellites, who cares if the signal bleeds over the border by a few km? Not like they're going to make you double-illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_Dudayev#Death_and_leg...

This kind of technique has also been targeted at others in the Middle East.