Henry Spencer wrote:


If not, then the
whole system is, in my opinion, a complete waste of time, money and effort,
simply duplicatiing GPS.

See above. But yes, it is largely a duplication. The US could save a lot
of time, money, and effort if it joined the Galileo consortium and closed
down GPS. Vice-versa doesn't work, because there is no GPS consortium and
no way to join it.

As things are going, US military seems to be the only party with
any serious longterm interest in GPS, given that both China and
India are buying into Galileo. I would be very suprised (unless there
are major Galileo delays) if any new non-military GPS based development
was hapenning.

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Sander

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