With XM’s recent announcement of surpassing 5 Million Subscribers - we were a little put off by the lack of detail in the press release. Today we get the full info with XM Satellite Radio adding more than 617,000 new net subscribers during Q3 2005 reaching a total of over 5.03 million subscribers.

XM’s subscriber gain represents a 48% increase in new net subscribers compared to Q3 2004, when XM added more than 415,000 new net subscribers.