Sirius XM reportedly seeing rate increase this March

Sirius XM hasn't even been one for long, and yet we're already staring an impending price increase in the face. According to Sirius Buzz, company support representatives are now confirming to the general public that a rate hike will go into effect starting March 11, 2009. They're encouraging current subscribers to lock in their current rates for three years in order to be grandfathered in, but should you choose not to, you'll likely be paying $2 more for additional subscriptions and a $2.99 fee for the online internet radio service. If there's any good news here, it's that the latter fee will give you access to that oh-so-amazing 128k "premium" feed, though we're still left in the dark about any future channel expansions stemming from the increase.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 5th 2009 3:50PM]

The rate increase is ridiculous. They tricked us into thinking that once the merger took place, we would have more options for chanels and possibly save money. Instead, you have to subscribe to the top tier in order to get Howard Stern. Let's face it, most of us have Sirius for that. Now they are getting us on a technicality and raising the rate on additional radios. And think about this for a moment: you can't bring your receiver inside a building and listen to their service because you can't get a signal indoors. That's why they gave us FREE internet radio; to compensate for that short-coming. Now they are charging us for it.. B.S! They are also now charging to ACTIVATE new radios!! That only started after the merger. I'm done. I pay over $40 a month for all of my radios, and that's not enough for them. So screw Sirius, I'm cancelling on March 11th to make my point. There's NO WAY they will survive like this.