[BC] XM v Sirius

[Alan Alsobrook]

Perhaps, but it may be a while.
Remember Sirius & XM are subsidizing their receivers, and paying the 
freight on R&D. The receiver manufactures are out of pocket for IBOC.
one thing that may help IBOC is that the technology used for satellite 
is very similar to what will be needed for IBOC. So you might even say 
that Sirius & XM are helping the terrestrial market by doing a bunch of 
the R&D for them.

Fred Gleason wrote:
> I strongly suspect that this is largely an artifact of manufacturing volume.  
> If/when IBOC finally takes off, I would expect the cost of all three to 
> become roughly the same.  We've seen this same curve many times already (CD, 
> DVD, etc).
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Alan Alsobrook CSRE AMD CBNT
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