Article: Navigating the future; GPS and Galileo.(GPS and Galileo navigation systems)

How America can learn from Europe

ONE is a state-owned monopoly, financed by taxpayers and free at the point of consumption. The other uses private finance, promotes competition and seeks payment for services rendered. So which is American and which European? Wrong. The commercial model comes from the Europeans.

The comparison is between the Global Positioning System (GPS), developed by America, and the incipient Galileo satellite navigation system being built by the European Union. America cannot understand why the Europeans feel the need to re-invent this wheel. But apart from a desire to exercise its sovereign right to maintain its independence of ...

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