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Re:The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan by walrus01 on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:23AM (#17615032)
GLONASS is supported in every major GPS-receiving chipset these days (including those in smartphones, etc), because Russia put a huge import tariff on any satellite navigation equipment that isn't GLONASS capable. So the manufacturers of such, who were already doing it, made GPS Rx chips that also listen to GLONASS.

https://books.google.com/books?id=DuoKFiZKbwEC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA...

https://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/21/the-iphone-4s-glonas...

this is pretty old news.

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Re:The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan by psyklic on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:35AM (#17615080)
Galileo is catching up too. There is a supported device list here: https://www.usegalileo.eu/EN/. In addition, Galileo was just added in a recent software update to some Garmin watches. (Interestingly, they have supported GLONASS for a while.)
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