EU and US Agree on Galileo

An anonymous reader writes "The EU and USA have reached an agreement over the Galileo satellite positioning system, ending several years of negotiations." We had some good Galileo information in a story last month.

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Sounds like an effort towards standardisation.

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Under the terms of the agreement, the two sides agreed on key points including:

- a common signal structure for so-called "open" services, and a suitable signal structure for the Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS).

- a process allowing improvements, either jointly or individually, of the baseline signal structures in order to further improve performances.

- confirmation of inter-operable time and standards to facilitate the joint use of GPS and Galileo.

This sounds like an effort towards standardisation. Something the EU and the rest of the world are pretty good at.

See ITU and 3GPP. And of course IETF. ;)

It is good to see that US is seeing the values and benefits of standardisation.