noncongruent t1_iv2qqnk wrote
Reply to comment by paul_wi11iams in Ukraine suffered a comms outage when 1,300 SpaceX satellite units went offline over funding issues by thatoneguy889
Yep, the terminals are geofenced so that if Russians get ahold of one and torture passwords out of a Ukrainian they still won't work in Russian-held territory. This means they won't work in Crimea at all, and when battle lines are shifting rapidly on active fronts there's a delay from when Ukraine can tell SpaceX they've regained control of territory and when SpaceX can propagate the new geofence info to terminals. This is likely only a problem where Ukraine is making rapid progress, which isn't along the entire battlefront.
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