Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’.

• lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pretty much every GPS-capable device made in the last decade uses all systems available: GPS (USA), GLONASS (Russia), and Galileo (EU).

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• mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For those who are unfamiliar with it:

  GLONASS (ГЛОНАСС, IPA: [ɡɫɐˈnas]; Russian: Глобальная навигационная спутниковая система, romanized: Global’naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema, lit. ‘Global Navigation Satellite System’) is a Russian satellite navigation system operating as part of a radionavigation-satellite service.

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