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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Fundamentally, it would be impossible to tax GPS. The satellites are broadcasting their signal openly so that anybody with a reciever, a computer, and the relavant equations can use it. Trying to filter out those that paid and those that didn’t is basically impossible so instead the US government pays for the system as a public service.
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