http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/ Engadget Comments for Sirius XM reportedly seeing rate increase this March http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
The rate increase is purely because the company is losing so much money that it is going to go bankrupt soon.]]>Jan 21st 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
I'll be canceling my additional radio and use one of the free online stations for music. I like Sirius, but I'm not bound to them.]]>Jan 21st 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2008/10/16/2008-10-16_after_the_satellite_radio_merger_some_si.html
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Good job FCC and SEC!!!]]>Jan 21st 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/

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Slacker is the winner in all this, they couldn't have timed the clearance of the G1 units on woot! any better. I'm constantly seeing people on the Slacker forums and at DigitalRadioCentral.com that are also former XMers that now listen to Slacker, and many are premium members and are getting additional portables.]]>Jan 21st 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 23rd 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
Of course, the only time we use it is when we're in no mans land and there is nothing but 6 flavors of country music on at the same time. ]]>Jan 21st 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
If they cut all the people who don't want there service after the free period, the stock holders would have sold the stock running the company into the ground.

As long as Sirius showed they were providing service to X number of units, it kept them going. I know lots of people that kept getting service and never payed for it on Sirius.]]>Jan 21st 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
That was sarcasm you were correcting. When someone jokes about their typing error and then makes an obvious error, they are probably being self deprecating.

And correcting people's grammar in the internet got tired and toolish in the mid-1990s. ]]>Jan 21st 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 25th 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
anyway, i assume us who re-paid for 2 years won't get a bill right? that would be stupid.]]>Jan 21st 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
i agree]]>Jan 21st 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-284108A1.pdf

"The combined company shall not raise the retail prices for its basic $12.95 per month
subscription package, the a la carte programming packages, and the new programming packages
nor reduce the number of channels in either their current packages or new packages for at least
36 months."
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They aren't raising the items they agreed to not raise.

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Better wait on buying a lifetime sub.]]>Jan 21st 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
If so, I don't see that as a huge deal. Sucks to raise the price, but if its what Sirius needs to stay alive right now, I'd rather pay a few extra bucks and not have to go back to terrestrial radio.]]>Jan 21st 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
Also to anyone comparing Sirius to services like Pandora, then you don't get what's great about satellite radio and should not waste your money. Sirius is all about the original programing like Howard Stern, Jason Ellis, NFL etc.]]>Jan 21st 2009 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/Jan 21st 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
Mel said

"“We are absolutely not a monopoly,” Karmazin said heatedly at one point. “We are absolutely convinced this merger will be in the best interest of consumers,” he maintained. “This merger will give consumers more choice at a lower price and more importantly, less confusion.”"

All i see is a service that i would once happily pay $20 a month for and now hardly ever use. I knew Sirius was a joke of a service and now i am forced to live with it. And they want me to pay more for it. GET OUT OF HERE!]]>Jan 21st 2009 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
I'm sure your radio can tun in one of thousands of radio stations all across the US. If you don't like the commercials, pay up or shut up. It's that simple. You either pay for your content in cash or ads.]]>Jan 21st 2009 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/sirius-xm-reportedly-seeing-rate-increase-this-march/
I have a 3 yr contract and thought I might go ahead and drop them (I've heard enough Ad Council ads to last me an eternity). I sat on immediate hold for 22 minutes and finally gave up. And here I sit, still subscribed.....

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