Critical success factors to get the development of GPS/GALILEO receivers started

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Critical success factors to get the development of GPS/GALILEO receivers started

Players potentially interested in GALILEO need to see clear and unambiguous signals that GALILEO will become operational at a certain point in time. Before these signals are not sent out by the EC or the GALILEO proponents, nobody will start investing into the development of GALILEO based receivers or chipsets. There are still several question marks around this programme, which will prevent most companies from going forward. The following questions must be answered in a credible way:

• Date of completion: The year 2008 appears unrealistic, considering the fact that not even the signal and frequency structure is finalized yet;
• Costs of using the GALILEO signals: what needs to be paid to whom ? Without knowing the costs, no business plan in the “user segment” can be put together;
• Regulations which encourage – or even force - the use of GALILEO: in the absence of clearly visible user benefits one needs to know to what extent GALILEO will be mandatory to be used for certain applications, otherwise GPS alone might be sufficient enough. [1]

References

[1] G.Dippel-Hens (GALILEAN working group report)
"GNSS business issues".