IP: Rivals Mobilize Alternatives to U.S. System

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
> Subject: Rivals Mobilize Alternatives to U.S. System
>
> Rivals Mobilize Alternatives to U.S. System
>
> Jennifer 8. Lee New York Times Service
> Tuesday, November 27, 2001
> NEW YORK
>
> Around the world, countries are mobilizing to build independent
> satellite navigation networks, troubled that the Global Positioning
> System, the only functioning worldwide network, is run by the U.S.
> military and controlled by the government.
>
> In the past decade or so, the continuous signals emitted by a
> constellation of orbiting satellites have allowed users to compute
> time, location and speed with high accuracy, calculations that play
> an increasing role in tasks ranging from firing missiles in
> Afghanistan to guiding ships at sea to flashing directions in rental
> cars. As the American technology becomes a worldwide standard, other
> governments are wary that this dependence raises issues of strategic
> and economic security.
>
> ...
>
> http://www.iht.com/articles/40134.html


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