Radio Traffic.(Brief Article)

Istanbul in May turned out to be a pretty good month for global satellite navigation and timing. As this month's "Washington View" column points out, both the U.S. Global Positioning System and Europe's proposed Galileo system pretty much got what they needed from the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC 2000) in the way of frequency allocations.

Now if they can just live with the decisions, and each other.

Proponents of radionavigation satellite services (RNSS, a category that includes GPS, Galileo, and Russia's GLONASS) succeeded in suppressing a proposal from mobile satellite service (MSS) providers to share the 1559-1567 MHz, in the lower eight MHz of …