A geostationary orbit must either be over the equator or must bob back and forth between the northern and southern hemisphere. There does not exist a "geostationary orbit over the EU."

Not sure about their borders, really? Im sure you're probably one of those dumbed-down imbred rednecks from the south that still doesn't know if Puerto Rico is a part of the union or not. So sit down and not speak about things you have no clue about. BTW your college-level(doubt that you have any) education is "euro-pean" 8th grade education, so please do us all a favor..

Some errors in the article.

1) EGNOS has been up since at least 2005, it's not new... it has been set to 'safe to use for non safety of life applications' in the last two weeks however.

2) GPS errors out in the open are already at the level of 1-3 metres, even GLONASS is capable of 5-10 metre positioning 95% of the time you've got enough satellites in view. All EGNOS is doing is giving slight corrections and the ability to detect malfunctioning satellites very quickly.

3) Do you actually believe Galileo will go live by 2015? The EU is in a race for 3rd place with China over their COMPASS network, and all signs are pointing to China pulling into the lead. The only contribution of Galileo to the satellite navigation community has been to force GPS and GLONASS to modernize their systems.

http://eyeball-series.org/border-wall/border-wall.htm

In a few years I will be able to buy a keychain GPS, Galileo, EGNEOS device so I can log on the internet and find that I left my keys in my trouser pocket!

Isn't technology grand?

Oh, good. Now maybe the Euro-peons can finally precisely map borders between their countries, making it easier to start another world war over disagreements about what piece of land belongs to which country. None of this ambiguous mucking about.

@hexx
Because you will not mistakenly end up in a pub anymore?

so i won't be knocking on neighbour's door any more after friday evening out