No XM today....
May 21, 2007 | 2:07 pm
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No XM today....
Hope no one used an upgrade to rent a vehicle with XM radio today. They are upgrading their system and with that upgrade, they are down perhaps until tomorrow according to their technical support reps.
May 21, 2007 | 3:14 pm
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It works in Southwest Oregon as of two hours ago. Funny, I just activated it yesterday. I'll be spending more time behind the wheel than I'd like this year.
Check this out: XMSCION03 promotion code gets you free activation and the first three months free. It works for online registration too.
Jim
Check this out: XMSCION03 promotion code gets you free activation and the first three months free. It works for online registration too.
Jim
May 21, 2007 | 3:30 pm
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The "upgrade" is them BS'ing you.
One of their satellites is out of operation and they are scrambling to fix it.
No company schedules an upgrade in the middle of the day that shuts down most of the country.
One of their satellites is out of operation and they are scrambling to fix it.
No company schedules an upgrade in the middle of the day that shuts down most of the country.
May 21, 2007 | 5:26 pm
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May 21, 2007 | 7:37 pm
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May 21, 2007 | 10:57 pm
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May 22, 2007 | 12:07 am
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Just got this e-mail from XM
Originally Posted by XM
Service Degradation Alert
You may be experiencing temporary degraded performance with your XM reception at the present time. XM is aware of the issue and working diligently to resolve it as soon as possible. We anticipate full signal strength will be restored by early Tuesday morning.
You may be experiencing temporary degraded performance with your XM reception at the present time. XM is aware of the issue and working diligently to resolve it as soon as possible. We anticipate full signal strength will be restored by early Tuesday morning.
May 22, 2007 | 7:45 am
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I do hope it's up soon. I just attempted it around 9:40 AM, and (at least for me) it's still down!
How come someone in SJC received an email from XM, but someone in PVD (who is affected by the outage) did not?
May 22, 2007 | 8:23 am
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Washington Post Story on XM Outage
May 22, 2007 | 8:34 am
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