To parapharse the eminent Senator Ted Stevens (Google Query: Tubes Internet Senator), the satellite radio network is just a bunch of tubes in the sky, but unlike the "tubes" of the terrestrial networks, the satellite kind of XM and Sirius are much, much more expensive, and in general unlikely to any time in the next 10+ years be considered anything resembling a competitive market.
BusinessWeek: New Conditions May Ease XM-Sirius Merger
I say this as subscriber to both services, and appreciator of various aspects of each, that I wish the two would just merge their technology and let me subscribe to a package of the best of each that I could share between each of our two stereos, rather than accept the compromises forced on me by the current situation:
If my wife's car needs work, or I yearn for the joy of our '99 Maxima again, I get to hear Bob Edwards, Bob Dylan and (sometimes) my hometown St. Louis Cardinals. If I'm driving my primary car, and I've figured out how to reset the security code on our stereo after it got locked when we had to have the car jump-started this past winter, I get Howard, Champions League Soccer and NPR. I'd like to combine those worlds, and having a merger that would allow me to somehow use my existing hundreds of dollars invested in our current receivers and antennae (a dream, I know) or at least not have to shift my listening habits to one set of options or the other would probably be a good thing.
To buttress one of their arguments for the merger, my iPod plays the same music from car to car to car, and that kind of consistency I like.
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