[appplication]

I would bet if there’s any beam shaping they try to shape to avoid affected areas. Better to allocate that power somewhere it’s useful/paid for.

They probably also just authenticate based on end user (e.g. what is the account being used and where is if registered), and make it against usage terms to operate in certain geolocations. The uplink terminals may also include GPS metadata but that doesn’t seem necessary since most won’t move and extra GPS equipment would be added expense.

[keyme]

I have no source handy, but I vaguely remember a GPS module present on board (I've likely seen that on some youtube teardown).

[inemesitaffia]

In Ukraine, it works without GPS

[jcims]

There is