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>>You just don't get it Alex. They say they'll pay for it by selling off the analog airwaves. See, that's not taxpayers' (your) money, it's theirs. They won't be getting it from your taxes, they'll be getting it by sellling off their own private property. You probably think the Government doesn't have its own private property - that any such property belongs to the citizens of the country. How foolish you are.
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>I heard somewhere (proboby here), that they plan to use the VHF channels for the new GPS signals. The current GPS signals do not work vary well in cities and underground. (I wish I could find that link...)

I thought I'd heard that too, but the article states only that they intend to sell off the analog airwaves to pay for the subsidy. Maybe they thought through the ramifications of the GPS idea and decided it made sense, so they scrapped it.