USA guarantees GPS availability

1996-04-10T00:00:00

THE LONG-AWAITED US Government policy statement on civil use of the global-positioning system (GPS) has guaranteed continuous, worldwide, availability free of direct user charges. The USA will also stop deliberately degrading civil-GPS signals within the next four to ten years, enabling commercial-receiver accuracy to increase to 20m from 100m.

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