Comment Re:Sigh. (Score 1) 101
Incorrect. Galileo went live.... at the end of December 2016 !
https://galileognss.eu/2016/12/
This live "initial services" was said to be not available all the time.... as 4 satellites didn't provide enough coverage. That was then..... The system now has considerably more than 4. The current failure is not being described as because of lack of satellites. Justification for Galileo was for many reasons, including reliability. Back in 2014 there was much criticism, from the EU, of a complete failure of GLONASS... which took a staggering 10 hours for the Russians to fix. A mistake led to incorrect data being uploaded to the satellites and the Russians had to wait for each satellite to pass over Russian territory, where they had upload capability to fix. So the EU has spent considerable, on the ground infrastructure, for reliability and has upload capability across the planet, so that problems can be addressed quickly.
However at the moment we have the largest single GNSS failure.... and no body is available to even update a status page.