[BC] WSJ: Satellite Radio Runs Into Static

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:31 AM 8/15/2006, Rob Atkinson wrote: -------

>in today's Wall Street Journal headline top Front Page column 5:
>
>Low Fidelity:  Until Recently Full of Promise, Satellite Radio Runs 
>Into Static

If this article doesn't do a number on their stock prices, nothing 
will. It makes it sound as though the whole thing is falling apart. 
The article mentions that car installations don't get activated. Now 
it's done (for the free trial period) at the factory. What happens 
when the radio stops working when the trial is over? My bet is that 
the dealers aren't telling buyers they'll be on the hook once the 
trial ends. Then the car comes back for service because the radio 
doesn't work right.

I see the same issue with IBUZ when mode switching drives the driver 
nuts, especially where stations actually process separately and the 
secondaries disappear in bad signal areas.

Coming from a car dealer family I think car manufacturers are 
absolutely nuts to install an option that's likely to bring the car 
back for warranty service, especially when the problem can't be 
fixed. In Western New England mode switching is a constant problem.

Rich