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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Originally, GPS for civillian applications was restricted in accruacy. This was to give the US army the advantage and prevent said technology to be used against the US and it’s allies.
Clinton however realised the economic impact that a free, non subscription based, full access to the GPS system would create. There you have it. From civil aviation to shipping and search and rescue, the GPS system offers too much good for it’s use to be restricted. It also paints the US in a very good light, so you can guess propaganda?
If they were to go back now and restrict it’s use, it would be an international PR disaster and a great opportunity for competing systems such as Russia’s to take over…
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