Sprint To Compete With XM & Sirius?

[SteveOrdinetz]

  rogerkirk wrote:
>In a NY Times article (1-13-2005) it says Sprint may be
>ready to deliver commercial-free music (and video)
>via EV-DO Cell Phone technology.
>
>A short quote for scholarly evaluation:
>
>"...not expected to unveil details [snip] until later this year, but it is 
>managing to deliver nonstop streaming music (think of the cellphone as 
>commercial-free radio) and good-quality video clips over its 
>second-generation system."


Call me a hopelessly out of touch old geezer, but I just don't "get" the 
appeal of cellphone-as-electronic-Swiss-Army-knife.  Custom ring tones are 
annoying enough, now we have to endure tinny but loud music channels 
too?  I can hardly wait.