Sirius & Rolls in bed

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:09:31 -0500, Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com> said:

> That is not likely to happen anytime soon.  The chips used to decode 
> the programming are proprietary and largely subsidized by the system 
> it is meant to receive.  There is no way Sirius is gonna subsidize a 
> receiver that gets XM, or the other way around.

Both SDARS operators are required, by the terms of their licenses, to
develop such a receiver.  Interoperable receivers were supposed to be
on the market by 2004, according to the most recent FCC proceedings I
can find on the topic, but I don't recall having seen any.  I expect
they will have to demonstrate better compliance by license-renewal
time (or else the FCC will simply cave and drop the requirement from
the rules).

-GAWollman