Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan
Sure seems like a lot of money and effort just to "keep up with the Jones's".

Still, it's your tax dollars, not mine, so: go for it - and hurrah for that.

'American monopoly' seems a slight misrepresentation, (albeit a fashionable one in many quarters) since GP service is provided free, aside from the cost of hardware. Is anyone aware of some profit gained by providing GPS worldwide, with an average uptime of 99.98% http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/art....jsp?id=188222 ?
the problem isn´t one of having to pay for it....it´s knowing that if the US military wants too, it can shut down the system and leave everyone else hanging.

One shouldn´t depend on someone else for something of this importance.