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USA: listening to satellite radio (XM and Sirius) only through Windows Mobile ... but some legal problems underway March 27, 2006 [General] | By Edward J. R. All wireless carriers in USA offer flat rate mobile Internet access plans, so no wonder that users want to listen to satellite radio systems (such as XM and Sirius - each offering many channels for paying subscribers only) also on their mobile phones. Interestingly only Windows Mobile phones offer this possibility: To be sure, the addressable market is tiny. Users have to own relatively new Microsoft Windows Mobile-powered smartphones or Pocket PC handheld devices and troll online message boards to locate the software or website links. ... and although the choice is small: for example still Howard Stern show and Adam Curry's Podshow are not being streamed over Internet - only over satellite - some developers already developed programs to listen to audio streams from satellite radios over Internet, but both XM and Sirius are sending lawyers against them: Sirius said its lawyers are also on the case. "Our lawyers are diligently pursuing this," a company spokesman said. ... although obviously one needs to be paying subscriber to have user name and password to access this online stream of Sirius radio. To learn more (from where above quotes come from) click here. Please remember: both for XM and for Sirius there is more than one player available, and some of them require installation of .NET Compact Framework 2.0 - but surely they work and offer streaming of this what these radio companies offer over Internet. While both Sirius and XM present themselves as being "future of the radio" and thanks to small satellite radio receivers (no satellite dish required, portable receivers and receivers built-in into cars possible), in reality they still miss on opportunity of Internet and mobile Internet: persecuting developers and not offering full range of programs over Internet means that in reality these satellite radios are backward, not progressive. Their only advantage: total freedom of speech and lack of regulation by FCC, are however possible also in podcasting, and if these radios will not react quickly and start offering all their channels over Internet, podcasting will fill the gap and take over.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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