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.
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.
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.
Its not an XM deal, its XM Canada...2 completely different companies.
I love my Sirius on my Sprint phone. $6.95/month.
Just one more way to hear the failures available on High Voltage.