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| Re: Dish/Directv? said by LouiseBowes :easy....satellite radio is a totally different medium from an access perspective. There are plenty of areas that are not served by cable where satellite is the ONLY choice and if the DISH/DTV merger were allowed to go through, it would create a monopoly for those customers who have no cable/FIOS/u-verse access. Satellite radio does not have that issue, the worse that you get is poor reception on occasion and the lsitener can always go over to terrestrial radio or an IPOD. Haven't spent much time in the West have you? There are plenty of places out here where you can't get a terrestrial radio signal at all. Switch to IPOD? Switch to DVD...
"evidence does not demonstrate that the proposed merger of XM and Sirius is likely to substantially lessen competition, and that the transaction therefore is not likely to harm consumers." Do these people really believe the BS they spout? The only two players in the market want to merge and it's not going to lessen competition? I'll tell you what's going to happen to customers after a merger. Our bills will be 20% more within the first 2 years to fund the sports packages that the other provider brings to the table, and Fungus 53 will merge with the assrock station on Sirius, and The Ramones will be followed by Winger. /unsubscribe -- »www.lp.org/issues/family-budget.shtml
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