How is GPS free?

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GPS has made a major impact on our world. How is it a free service that anyone with a phone can access? How is it profitable for companies to offer services like navigation without subscription fees or ads?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

The company who created GPS is the US military. And they need and want it to navigate their fleets.

So the feature exists anyway and the military decided to provide a less accurate access to anyone.

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