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Merger talk clouds wx data’s future

Wall Street analysts now say the proposed merger between XM Satellite Radio and Sirius should have little difficulty winning approval from the Federal Comm

By Stephen Pope

November 5, 2007

Wall Street analysts now say the proposed merger between XM Satellite Radio and Sirius should have little difficulty winning approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Justice. That could spell trouble for buyers of aviation weather datalink gear.

Most datalink weather receivers work over the XM satellite network. Data provider WSI has bucked the trend by teaming up with Sirius for a competing service. Deliveries of WSI’s new InFlight AV-300 series datalink weather systems started in September. The series includes the Sirius-compatible AV-300 and -350 models as replacements for the former AV-100 and -200 series products, which WSI no longer supports.

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