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Not all but a lot. It is a mixed bag though, Iridium and Thuraya are illegal in India but Inmarsat has a license, so it kind of depends really. You need a loca
by manquer 3y ago
Not all but a lot. It is a mixed bag though, Iridium and Thuraya are illegal in India but Inmarsat has a license, so it kind of depends really.
You need a local license because radio frequency is considered a national resource, so each country owns the radio space about its land and they get to govern it.
- lxgr 3y agoThat makes sense. So the ITU has more of a role of coordination than of actual assignment, I suppose? Practically, satellites won't switch frequencies every time their spot beam footprints cross national boundaries, so I suppose it's more of a matter of allowing/not allowing service in a given country (as determined by either the mobile or the satellite?).
- manquer 3y agoThe other tool is simply not allowing receivers to sold or used to decode/decrypt forbidden sources in a country enforced with import ban like with satellite phones etc.