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Friday, January 09, 2004 10:08:03 AM
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Don't know about that. Toronto doesn't offer it. And it isn't in "every city". Sort of like hotspots for WiFi. You need towers to receive and even then there apparently are problems with the signals and tall towers (.com).
The question to me is - are people willing to pay to listen to music stations? A personal phone to walk around with is one thing (call a cell phone
- for $1 at the dollar store I can probably pickup a FM tuner and stick the headset in my ear and listen.
Right now things are pretty wacked. So they started the NET and everything was for free. Now a lot of things are going PAY. But $3.95 here.. $9.95 there. It isn't like "everything before the net was available and people were paying and now we are just shifting to the net" -- I strongly doubt people are "going to pay" for these services. To get Barrons I can pay $60US (or whatever it is lately) a year for the NET version - well for a Canuck that is a LOT cheaper than $200 for delivery or going to your local store to pick it up. But going to CJRT Jazz-FM and subscribing to get their "digitial station" - sure it is better than the FM - but worth the money?
Back on Planet XM - Might be a Peter Lynch scenario -- don't buy the technology; buy the companies that use the technology...
JetBlue in the US apparently has a adopted it in their planes.
I am watching..
OT with WiFi - I heard that the phone companies may have some use for those old payphone booths after all -- wifi hotspots...
sssObbb
Don't know about that. Toronto doesn't offer it. And it isn't in "every city". Sort of like hotspots for WiFi. You need towers to receive and even then there apparently are problems with the signals and tall towers (.com).
The question to me is - are people willing to pay to listen to music stations? A personal phone to walk around with is one thing (call a cell phone
- for $1 at the dollar store I can probably pickup a FM tuner and stick the headset in my ear and listen. Right now things are pretty wacked. So they started the NET and everything was for free. Now a lot of things are going PAY. But $3.95 here.. $9.95 there. It isn't like "everything before the net was available and people were paying and now we are just shifting to the net" -- I strongly doubt people are "going to pay" for these services. To get Barrons I can pay $60US (or whatever it is lately) a year for the NET version - well for a Canuck that is a LOT cheaper than $200 for delivery or going to your local store to pick it up. But going to CJRT Jazz-FM and subscribing to get their "digitial station" - sure it is better than the FM - but worth the money?
Back on Planet XM - Might be a Peter Lynch scenario -- don't buy the technology; buy the companies that use the technology...
JetBlue in the US apparently has a adopted it in their planes.
I am watching..
OT with WiFi - I heard that the phone companies may have some use for those old payphone booths after all -- wifi hotspots...
sssObbb
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