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Technology Stocks : Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pcstel who wrote (5379)	10/21/2006 3:53:49 PM
From: kovachs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8420

So of the 898,315 net additions in Q4. 782,420 (87%) came from retail, while only 114,084 came from OEM. Now, given your OPINIONS. XM CPGA costs should have been LOWER than in their usual OEM heavy quarters, but, just the opposite occured. XM CPGA costs were dramatically HIGHER!.. Now, how can retail CPGA costs be lower than OEM, when the FACTS show that just the opposite is true? Do you have any verifiable data points to support your OPINIONS??? Because by the data that I have provided above. It appears that just the opposite is true??? Maybe that is why SIRI's CPGA is higher than XM's? And so it goes, PCSTEL MORON ALERT!!! MORON ALERT!! You are so ignorant it's absolutely AMAZING!!! In the fourth quarter of last year XM slashed the prices of radios for one quarter (the fourth quarter) in a one time effort to combat Stern. In addition since it was the fourth quarter some radios were not activated until after the new year. Even if the radio was not activated until after the new year (or never activated)the cost of subsidizing that radio hit the fourth quarter financials. XM was selling radios for $20-25 at retail. That was a one quarter event. To attempt to use the spike in 4th quarter CPGA for XM as a point of evidence to argue that retail CPGA is higher than OEM CPGA is just amazing stupid. But then again you are the one making that point!!!!