• Question: Do you know roughly how many vehicles use the satellites at one given time/on average?

    Asked by 872spcq22 to Brian on 5 Mar 2019.
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      Brian Weaver answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      The 2017 European GNSS Agency (GSA) market report estimated 5.8 billion satellite positioning capable devices in use worldwide with an expected 8 billion devices by 2020. That’s an average of about one positioning device per person on the planet!
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      Although I’m not sure about how many vehicles use the positioning satellites at a given time, the 2017 GSA report states that 380 million devices are used for positioning vehicles on roads.
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      Guess what market has the highest number of positioning satellite users? Smartphones! According to the same report, 5.4 billion satellite-positioning capable smartphones were in use in 2017. That’s 80% of all satellite-positioning enabled devices worldwide!
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      If you want to know more, read pages 5-7 of the GSA market report (link below). Feel free to ask me if you have more questions.
      https://www.gsa.europa.eu/system/files/reports/gnss_mr_2017.pdf

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