So yeah, that rumored Sirius XM price hike is totally going to happen. Go ahead and call Sirius XM and you’ll get the customer service guy trying to get you to “lock in” your current rates by buying a lifetime subscription. Time to break out the pitchforks.
Right in line with yesterday’s information, online streaming will now cost $2.99 per month (it’s currently free with a subscription), and each extra radio will cost you $2 more per month, to $8.99. Note that the online feed’s quality will jump a bit, to 128k.
The base subscription price remains unchanged. That is, if you have only one radio and don’t listen to the online feed you won’t be affected.
As to whether or not this rate increase violates the agreement that Sirius XM made with the FCC, well, since the base rate wasn’t increased it’s hard to say that it does indeed violate the agreement.
But, really, it’s only $2, $2 that could go a long way to helping Sirius XM get through this wretched economy.
I was dreaming or did I hear Mel tell Congress, when he was trying to get this deal approved, “…there will be no increase in the cost of service, in fact, rates should come down!”
Quality tanked, prices go up and they lied about the merger.
As someone with 2 XM radios and who also listens online, this represents a 25% price increase. A 25% increase here and a 25% increase there and pretty soon my pocketbook is empty.
I think I’ll cancel the radio which I use at work and just listen online. That way I save $4 a month.
you are a cheap BASTARD!
And the service is terrible… go for a Zune pass and download all the music you really want for about the same price.
woops, nevermind.. didn’t realize the price was only $4 a month.. that is pretty cheap.
Let’s hope the Sirius reps know the pricing structure. I get a different answer each time I call. And apparently I knew about the iPhone app before the Sirius employee, who seemed puzzled and told me that would be an “extra radio”.