(((I dunno if the Europeans are ever gonna build and launch this hypothetical GPS system, but that Galileo "vision statement" sure sounds, uh, visionary.)))
Link: GSA Website.
"Vision
"Satellite radio-navigation applications will profoundly alter the mobility, safety and security of people and goods.
"The foreseeable integration of a reasonably accurate positioning device into every mobile telephone will make possible a fundamental transformation of the ways society deals with the dimensions of time and space.
"Europe’s initiative to build up a new generation of Global Navigation Satellite Systems will lay the foundations for new high-technology industry development, job creation and overall economic growth.
"Galileo has every possibility of becoming a universal system, driven by Europe."
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/gsa/galileo.html
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/gsa/galileo.html
