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# How Bright Is Satellite Radio’s Future?
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/how_birght_is_s/
- Published: 2006-03-29T14:12:37.000Z
- Updated: 2006-03-29T14:12:37.000Z
- Description: Hypebot has often taken the position that as good as satellite radio is; it will loose it’s luster when 10,000 internet broadcast streams can be accessed anywhere via WiFi/WiMax without. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/03/how_birght_is_s.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

[![Sirius_1](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/sirius_1.jpg "Sirius_1")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/sirius%5F1.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

Hypebot has often taken the position that as good as satellite radio is; it will

[![Xm_2](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/xm_2.jpg "Xm_2")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/xm%5F2.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

loose it’s luster when 10,000 internet broadcast streams can be accessed anywhere via WiFi/WiMax without a paid subscription. Investor site The Motley Fool says we’re wrong in a lengthy analysis of the problems and competitors facing XM and Sirius.

[![Motleyfool](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/motleyfool.jpg "Motleyfool")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/motleyfool.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

I’ll even take this one step further by conceding that a music-discovery site like Pandora.com or standalone Internet-radio appliances like the $400 Roku SoundBridge may temporarily quench some of the collective thirst for satellite radio.  
  
*Add it all up, though, and it’s still not going to get in the way of a satellite-radio industry that has gone from 9 million subscribers to 10 million in the past three months and will top 15 million before the end of the year.*

Read the full article [here](http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2006/commentary06032310.htm?ref=hypebot.com) (free registration may be required) and **tell us what you think**.