Today there is a paradoxical situation for the satellite navigation deriving from specialized military applications since 1960th. Now all the expenses (billion dollars a year) for the maintenance and development of navigation systems are incurred by states — owners of these systems (at the moment these are Russian and the USA, soon it will also be the EU and China), and the global mass markets with dozens of billion dollars formed on the basis of free and globally available satellite navigation signal. At the same time the civil consumers make higher and diverse demands on satellite navigation, and the traditional military consumers more actively look for alternative (in particular, more jam-proof) solutions.

The misbalance of interests of consumers and states — satellite navigation systems owners can slow down the development of navigation technologies and markets already pretty soon.

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