THREE years of squabbling between the US and the European Union over the EU’s Galileo satellite positioning system ended on Wednesday with Europe agreeing to use a slightly less accurate signal than it planned.
Though GPS, the US Global Positioning System is open and free to use, European governments want an alternative. The US has always opposed this. The final stumbling block concerned Galileo’s public signal, which the US said was too close to a planned military one of its own known as the M-Code. In a war, the US would jam non-military signals to prevent the enemy using satellite…
