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Navsop navigation system rivals current technology GPS

Navsop relies on the same signals used by mobile phones, TVs, radios and wi-fi rather than navigation satellites

…device works by picking up all the available signals nearby, heavily relying on medium wave radio frequencies. This is the same part of the spectrum used by radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi more than a 100 years ago, who opened the world’s first telegraph in the same city. GPS (global positioning system) uses signals coming from satellites spinning around the Earth, some 20,000 km (12,427 mil…

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