XM Canada goes Cellular
Thursday, July 6, 2006 at 4:53 PM
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XM Canada and Telus Corp have inked a deal to bring a piece of the XM Canada service to cellular phones. The deal will provide 20 channels of XM Canada's music and talk content to a selection of Telus phones. The cost? $15 month.
Initially though, the service will be given away for free (for the first 2 months), and only available on the LG 8100 and the Samsung A950.
The deal is very similar to the Sirius / Sprint partnership of last year, though it should be noted that XM Satellite Radio (the U.S. version) currently does not have a deal with any mobile carriers.
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So C15 or $13.35 for twenty channels on a cell phone. Either there are more details to this deal or XM has just created a borderline retarded deal. Mabye its just a way to get people to buy the inno and gain 70 additional channels for doing so.
Posted by: Joe Blow | July 6, 2006 5:37 PM
This is definitely the next step in technology convergence, similar to when Handspring (now part of Palm) created the Treo where a PDA and phone merged. You can already listen to MP3s on some phones and access the web via wifi, so the introduction of satellite service is a natural progression.
Posted by: theicepik ? | July 7, 2006 9:38 AM
Its not an XM deal, its XM Canada...2 completely different companies.
Posted by: Nate | July 7, 2006 1:52 PM
I love my Sirius on my Sprint phone. $6.95/month.
Posted by: Kevin | July 7, 2006 9:20 PM
Just one more way to hear the failures available on High Voltage.
Posted by: tussel ? | July 8, 2006 12:54 PM