iirc there is a GPS chip inside the terminals, I recall hearing about that on the youtube video of it's teardown. also, the geofencing thing seems to be a FCC

iirc there is a GPS chip inside the terminals, I recall hearing about that on the youtube video of it's teardown. also, the geofencing thing seems to be a FCC requirement, because starlink recently applied permission for selling terminals to moving vehicles, anything from ships to RVs.