Sirius Satellite Radio's additional financing, upgrade

People are going to be kicking themselves for not buying this stock right now.

why should investors be excited about a company because they took out another loan?
This stock is still worthless judged by it's debt to revenue levels.

Maybe at $2.00 it would be worth a crazy bet, but not at $3.00.

If you were smart enough to see past all of the garbage numbers floated by Wall Street and see where the media of the 2010s and beyond were headed you'd jump on this at $4. Stop jugding companies in emgerging markets by the present.

I think most investers are smart enough actually to see that:

a) sat radio doesn't produce most of their own successful content - that comes from TV, sports league networks, and real AM/FM radio

b) the media of the 2010's wont be satellite based. It'll be Wi-Fi and WiMax based and Internet delivered. Sat radio doesn't have a chance with the 1,000s of choices that will be available then.

I think you are completely wrong Dennis. Satellite will be the one that dominates. WiMax and or Internet based radio can't reach many areas of our planet. A commonly held misconception is that WiMAX will deliver 70 Mbit/s, over 30 miles (48 kilometers). Each of these is true individually, given ideal circumstances, but they are not simultaneously true. In practice this means that in line-of-sight environments you could deliver symmetrical speeds of 10 Mbit/s at 10 km but in urban environments it is more likely that 30% of installations may be non-line-of-sight and therefore users may only receive 10 Mbit/s over 2 km. WiMAX has some similarities to DSL in this respect, where one can either have high bandwidth or long reach, but not both simultaneously. The other feature to consider with WiMAX is that available bandwidth is shared between users in a given radio sector, so if there are many active users in a single sector, each will get reduced bandwidth. However, unlike SDSL where contention is very noticeable at a 5:1 ratio (if you are sharing your connection with a large media firm for example), WiMAX does not have this problem. Typically each cell has a whole 100 Mbit/s backhaul so there is no contention here. In practice, many users will have a range of 2-, 4-, 6-, 8- or 10 Mbit/s services and the bandwidth can be shared. If the network becomes busy the business model is more like GSM or UMTS than DSL. It is easy to predict capacity requirements as you add customers. Additional radio cards can be added on the same sector to increase the capacity.

who cares how many ares of the planet satellite radio can reach? it's more expensive to launch a satellite than it is to build a wimax cell tower, so economies of scale are the only thing that could help satellite radio. they don't seem to be achieving them, even with the giveaway with new cars.

when someone in nowheresville needs a wimax cell tower, it'll be there and ready for them. not that i actually think wimax radio will be the dominant tech. ipod-like devices for music, and regular radio for djs and talk will still be the dominant technologies in 2010, just like they are today.

and what are you talking about Tim? SIRI is at $2.80, not $4, and is on a downward trend. when it gets to $4, maybe it's worth a look.