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Galileo has not declared Full Operational Capability (scheduled for 2020), it's still in the Initial Services stage. It's a bit like complaining that a beta has

• michaelt 7y ago
  In 2016 they did announce "the transition from a test system to one that is operational" [1] so I can understand why some people might find the distinction confusing. [1] http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/Galileo_begins_serving_the_globe http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/Galileo_begins_...
• makomk 7y ago
  The testing phase ended in 2016 - Galileo is a live GNSS network intended for actual use in navigation. The reason they haven't declared Full Operational Capacity is that they still haven't managed to deploy a full constellation of satellites. All of the official announcements and navigation messages from the satellites say that it's meant to be providing actual service, just with slightly degraded accuracy due to the missing satellites. Not only that, the EU's controversial eCall initiative, which requires cars that go on the market after April 2018 to automatically call the emergency services with their locations and a live mic to the interior if they detect a crash, mandates the use of Galileo for positioning. Manufacturers can (anbd probably will) use other GNSS systems in parallel, but Galileo is the only one that's guaranteed to be supported by cars. This is for a system whose life-saving benefits are supposedly so important as to outweigh the privacy issues.