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Article: Reaping the rewards of satellite navigation: NAVTEQ's Eric Fumat asks if businesses are ready to reap the rewards of satellite navigation.
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- GEO: connexion
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- December 1, 2007
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Over the last three years, satellite navigation has broken all growth records in the consumer electronics market and the sales of portable systems in Western Europe are expected to exceed 17 million in 2007. Consequently, the growing maturity of this market has reached the tipping point where interest in navigation is spreading from the consumer to the enterprise sector and many satellite navigation related projects are being developed.
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The business world's core interest lies in leveraging the benefits of satellite navigation to deliver significant efficiency improvements for corporate mobility. Unlike consumers--who ...