You cannot really compare satellite to terrestrial radio. That's like saying broadcast television is a competitor to cable television. They are an alternative, there is no question of that, but they are not analogous. Narrowing the the competitive field from two to one is anti-consumer practice and there's no way around that.
As for lobbyists jumping camps from one side to the other, you'll find that it has no effect whatsoever on his credibility on the hill. Lobbyists have no need for credibility to begin with, they are looking out for whoever pays the bills, personal politics be damned.
Competition does not need to be technologically similar to be valid. You don't feel that satellite TV is proper competition to cable? You can switch satellite TV providers, but try to switch cable provider. Hell try to switch away from Clearchannel on FM. XM and Sirius have very right to merge. If people feel they are getting pressured by prices then they switch off and listen to AM/FM.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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You cannot really compare satellite to terrestrial radio. That's like saying broadcast television is a competitor to cable television. They are an alternative, there is no question of that, but they are not analogous. Narrowing the the competitive field from two to one is anti-consumer practice and there's no way around that.
As for lobbyists jumping camps from one side to the other, you'll find that it has no effect whatsoever on his credibility on the hill. Lobbyists have no need for credibility to begin with, they are looking out for whoever pays the bills, personal politics be damned.
Competition does not need to be technologically similar to be valid. You don't feel that satellite TV is proper competition to cable? You can switch satellite TV providers, but try to switch cable provider. Hell try to switch away from Clearchannel on FM. XM and Sirius have very right to merge. If people feel they are getting pressured by prices then they switch off and listen to AM/FM.