In conclusion, it can be said that EGNOS
is today the fi rst European Satellite
Navigation system available. EGNOS
System Operations are advanced and
under qualifi cation and EGNOS Open
Services are used by an ever growing
public. The activities for its service
preparation are progressing. EGNOS
addresses main shortcomings of GPS,
which provides positioning data without
any guarantees of integrity or service
continuity. EGNOS will achieve
operational capability in the first half
of 2008 and soon after it will start its
services as a pre-cursor to Galileo. The
existence of an independent and reliable
European system is of great benefi t. As
such, users will be able to use the same
terminal to receive both GPS+EGNOS
and also Galileo signals.
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