The announcement that the EGNOS ‘Open Service’ being operational from 1st October does suggest that it is cleared for action
A lot of people have been wondering exactly what that announcement means, and it seems it means nothing whatsoever.
The signal has been there for years. Nothing has changed.
But let me again emphasise - the GPS in that pic (KLN94) does not use EGNOS, yet it delivers an altitude accuracy consistently within tens of feet - at all locations where such can be verified.