no competition, common sense (Score 1)

this is not about competition. the problem right now is that GPS is used by a ton of people. Planes, ships, cars, agriculture. all kinds of stuff. the problem is that the system is however still under US military control, and they still control operation, location of satelittes, etc. In short they still reserve the right to turn the system off or make it unusable at any time. Or like happened during the Iraq war relocate the sats to achive greater coverage in some regions. Not even the most patriotic under all Americans can feel comfortable with such a situation given that at any time the military may decide to disbale the system that many mission critical application depend on. That's why the EU is building a new system taht in the end will duplicate the current system (after all there is only so many ways to build a car with four wheels) but won't be in the hands of a military institution but instead dedicated to public use.