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Europe Building Their Own GPS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the now-to-find-the-needle-in-the-political-haystack dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BBC News is reporting that Europe is planning to build their own satellite-navigation network that will be backward and forward compatible. There's going to be 5 levels ranging from free (1m accuracy) to commercial (1cm accuracy)! Provision is also being made for a search and rescue mode where a signal can be sent to confirm that help is on the way. The system will supposedly even work with existing US network after upgrades to the network."

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  1. instead of paying $4bn for their own GPS by tie_guy_matt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why don't they pay the US $2bn for an iron clad, written in stone, contract that says they won't downgrade their GPS without the consent of the EU?