Gotta disagree with you Count. XM Radio is very good service and well worth the monthly fee. But heres their dilemma. 1. Getting started is way tooo much. Talking about a good deck (bout the same as a FM now) is 200+ for something good. Then you gotta get their antenna.... more money flowing out. Then you gotta include installation charges. Then you got bankruptcy thrown in there makes it too risky for me. Installation + equipment + monthly fee + hundreds of news articles that they are filing for bankruptcy = scaring people away. No one is gonna want to be stuck with the equipment and no service. -- Fiber Optics is the future of high-speed internet access. Stop by the BBR Fiber Optic Forum.
Exactly parallels the demise of DLS providers except its worse. With DSL the monopolistic competitors were just getting started too. With satellite radio its competitors have been in the same business for an eternity.
This is an idea that should have never received any investment dollars. We know it sounds good, but does it sound good enough, and offer a feature which people will perceive as necessary?
No way my mother will ever call satellite radio necessary. No way lack of a local DJ and a totally impersonal musical experience will be thought of as better than the overly chatty local DJs and programming.
Its just so obviously a bad idea it makes me want to be a businessman because people are supporting obviously stupid ideas.
Satellite TV is barely making it. So many signs... -- dnoyeB "Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard. " Ecclesiastes 9:16 The government is pricing our rights our of our reach.
said by skyjock41:Gotta disagree with you Count. XM Radio is very good service and well worth the monthly fee. But heres their dilemma. 1. Getting started is way tooo much. Talking about a good deck (bout the same as a FM now) is 200+ for something good. Then you gotta get their antenna.... more money flowing out. Then you gotta include installation charges. Then you got bankruptcy thrown in there makes it too risky for me. Installation + equipment + monthly fee + hundreds of news articles that they are filing for bankruptcy = scaring people away. No one is gonna want to be stuck with the equipment and no service.
That's my point. The equipment costs no more than sat TV equipment does but sat operators are smart...they offer free equipment for a contract or make it part of the payment. If they had added $5 / mo to the fee but made the equipment and install free they would have signed more people.
But that's THEIR problem and they shouldn't be whining about it when their model fails. -- The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. -Thomas Jefferson
