Sirius and XM merger?

What'll it do to satellite NEXRAD services?

"Blueskies" wrote in message
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What'll it do to satellite NEXRAD services?



Nothing.

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Blueskies" wrote in message
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What'll it do to satellite NEXRAD services?



Nothing.

Except (in the long run) increase prices and worsen service because there
will be no chance of competation.

Vaughn

"Vaughn Simon" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Blueskies" wrote in message
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What'll it do to satellite NEXRAD services?



Nothing.

Except (in the long run) increase prices and worsen service because
there will be no chance of competation.


Just like when IBM owned the computer industry in 1980.

Vaughn Simon wrote:
"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Blueskies" wrote in message
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What'll it do to satellite NEXRAD services?



Nothing.

Except (in the long run) increase prices and worsen service
because there will be no chance of competation.

Vaughn

I don't beleive Sirius had in their business plan to go into the aviation WX
market. But had they not merged neither would have been around in 4 or 5
years.

On 2/21/2007 9:10:48 AM, "Gig 601XL Builder" wrote:

I don't beleive Sirius had in their business plan to go into the aviation WX
market.

Yes, they do/did. Sirius is (was?) going to be the carrier for WSI's
downlinked weather. We WSI customers have been waiting since last October to
begin swapping our existing receivers for ones that receive the Sirius
signal.

I am a bit concerned how this merger, if it indeed goes through, would impact
WSI's weather delivery. However, as an XM Radio customer, I am a bit excited
about the increased talk channels and more stations that don't play
commercials between music.

--
Peter

Peter R. wrote:
On 2/21/2007 9:10:48 AM, "Gig 601XL Builder" wrote:

I don't beleive Sirius had in their business plan to go into the
aviation WX market.

Yes, they do/did. Sirius is (was?) going to be the carrier for WSI's
downlinked weather. We WSI customers have been waiting since last
October to begin swapping our existing receivers for ones that
receive the Sirius signal.

I am a bit concerned how this merger, if it indeed goes through,
would impact WSI's weather delivery. However, as an XM Radio
customer, I am a bit excited about the increased talk channels and
more stations that don't play commercials between music.

I didn't realise that WSI were going to use the Sirius birds for their feed.
Seeing as how even the merged companies will still need as much income as
possible XM/S might just feed the stuff anyway.

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

What'll it do to satellite NEXRAD services?

More importantly...will I be able to listen to Packer games in the
plane now? (That's the only reason I miss my old ADF...)

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Commercials.