[time-nuts] Giove A has become "official" now.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jan 15 09:25:14 EST 2007


In message <1141.210.4.139.138.1168869556.squirrel at webmail.lysator.liu.se>, bg@
lysator.liu.se writes:

>Why do you think Galileo will not be free for the user of the open service?

It will, if the satellites ever got up there.

But the subscription service is what is expected to actually pay
for Galileo, and that business model strongly hinges on the
existence of subscribers, none of which have materialized yet.

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