Navstar Announce Fee Structure for Navstar

Darren

Hot on the heels of the news released earlier this year that the European GPS Constellation Galileo was to be a subscription service when it goes live in 2006, Gen L. Afpriolo, the US Navstar GPS constellation boss, has today announced that they plan to migrate to a subscription model from March 31st 2005.

In response to heavy operating costs and the need to increase the speed at which the ageing system's satellites are replaced it was decided that the US DoD could no longer fund the service outright and as the number of non defence users had increased this was the obvious solution.

It used to be the cause of much hilarity when potential GPS users enquired of the service costs but as the old adage goes, "nothing is free in this world" and so it seems it is the end of an era for the until now free GPS service.

The fee structure is to be announced 30 Feb 2005.
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tom_m · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 1:14 pm Post subject:

Very good - General L. Afpriolo is an angram of "April Fool"...

Still, very beleivable, and I wonder how many others got caught out!

Darren · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject:

Just wait until the US wakes up ;)
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lbendlin · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:51 pm Post subject:

Having just done that (yawn) I have verified with the folks at Shriver Air Force Base in Colorado Springs (the maintainers of the current System 2) and they confirmed the action. They were rather hesitant to confirm the date, though, as well as the method of collecting the fee. Details will be announced later today.
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Pc-Mobile · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:07 pm Post subject:

I think there had been similar news for the last couple of years, around this time.
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Trevor · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 12, 2003 Posts: 21

:D Nice..... I wish I could get all my bills paid out on the 30th Feb!!!!!!

Pc-Mobile · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:14 pm Post subject:

Fees, and how it can be implemented, had been discussed before.
There is no way it can be implemented, or all current GPS being used will have to be binned.
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lbendlin · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

so what? an entire new market would open up...
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alix776 · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject:

hook line sinker hehehe Mr. Green

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