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by TylerE 855 days ago
Because it existed for 15 years before data roaming existed.
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mikestew 855 days ago
No, it’s because the audio quality used to be good, before they tried to see how many channels they could ram in there. Must have been going on 20 years now since we first got XM. When Sirius and XM merged,that’s about the time I recall the quality going way down.

And good luck to OP in cancelling that trial. We bought a new car, too, and I didn’t even bother to activate satellite radio.

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TylerE 855 days ago
It was never good. Maximum bittate per channel was something like 48kbps.
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jrnichols 855 days ago
it seems like they gave a bunch of satellite bandwidth to the stupid Howard Stern channels and cut back on the music ones. at least some of them.
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TylerE 854 days ago
That happened in 2008. Relatively ancient history. Getting Howard was the entire reason they bought out Sirius
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