Re: [Swprograms] Sirius Canada (was 'An articlefromglobetechnology.com')

[Joe Buch <joseph.buch@xxxxxxx>]

At 03:17 PM 6/14/05 -0400, Peter Bowen wrote:

What you say is true but we must remember that both Sirius and XM are profit-making (someday) organizations.  The cost to get from 90% to 100% may not be worth the revenue to be gained from the old gold miners in Yellowknife, and all those old people the Canadians put on ice flows in the Arctic Ocean when their time has come.  

Then again if CRTC demanded 100% coverage as a condition of their license, I guess the companies would figure out a way to make it happen.

Joe Buch

>And yet, that still leaves 10% of the pop. here, almost 3 million
>people. The CRTC may decide that any new radio systems should cover
>the entire country/population, and thus have 100% reach.
>
>This is similar to what CBC radio did some time back. In order to
>cover almost the entire population, it placed low-powered relay
>transmitters, usually FM, in hundreds of small communities so as to
>achieve near total coverage.
>
>After all, it is folks well way from the main centres who, arguably,
>would deserve the many channels of satellite radio the most. Those in
>rural areas have less choice than those in the bigger cities. Not only
>would satellite radio provide lots more choice (esp. on the music
>front), but it could cover all of the rural areas "in one go".
>
>73,
>pb
>
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