The merger is great and my neighbor who works for Sirius says the XM
services should not be affected.

I've avoided subscribing to XM or Sirius for several years because I
wasn't sure which, if either, would survive. Now that I know there
will be a service provider, I plan on subscribing soon. I also became
a stock investor. And I think there are a lot of other people like me
who feel the same way.

And satellite radio DOES have competition, it's called terrestrial
radio and cable TV (mine has 100 digital music channels).

~ted/2NO