As WIFI in your car catches on, XM and Sirius will become obsolete.

[Swede]

Which is no big deal,except for the guys who sunk their money into satellite radio. WIFI carries the internet,radio is just radio.

[Pawel K]

1. Yeah, I can't wait for this to become cheaper

Listening to pandora in my car will be sweet!

[Show_Me _The_Truth]

2. Ins't Wifi based on local ground transmitters?

How would that compete with being able to listen to the smae channel cross country? Which I do often.

[Swede]

6. You mean like cellphones? They'll never catch on.

I think it is gonna be the next big thing.

[Show_Me _The_Truth]

7. Two different technologies though.

Wifi is not as powerful a transmitter as a cellphone transmiter is.

The number of transmitters would be huge along major highways to keep service up, and what about rural routes? I get XM all along any route I travel.

Oh well, I do hope that a new technology or at least a new Sat radio provider will come out to compete. I just doubt that Wifi is the way to go.

[bighughdiehl]

3. Cool.....

Who do you get this from and how much is it? I imagine the signal wouldn't work in remote areas?

[mcscajun]

4. Details?

Is there some recent news on this?

Inquiring minds... :)

[Canuckistanian]

5. It probably won't be WIFI

It'll be a new service, called WiMAX. Hundreds of companies are working on it now and it's a huge improvement over WIFI (WLAN), which was only intended for short distances.

WiMAX products should start trickling out this year.