Prometheus wrote:

In article , Walt
Davidson writes
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:19:30 GMT, "Aztech" wrote:

Of course that reasoning also renders Worldspace redundant.

Worldspace rendered itself redundant the day it started charging
a
subscription for its services. How many of the population in
undeveloped third world countries are going to pay $$$ to listen
to a handful of foreign radio stations?

Probably enough skilled people living and working in the capital
cities often for foreign companies on foreign salaries. It's the
people outside this category who can not afford it, but since
they did not pay before what have Worldspace lost? You also need
to consider how many people in a third world country could
afford to buy a ~100 GBP radio.
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I was just in Nigeria where only the 10 or 20 dollars (USD)
Chinese radios are used. There are Sony's sold, but
Worldspace radios are very uncommon, and a friend only
got one as a prixe in a RFI contest, but otherwise couldn't
spend that kind of money for a radio.
Shortwave there had everything, from the Middle East, Europe
and Ascension, much of it for several hours of programming.
Worldspace is an idea, but in practice little used.
And my friend fried their radio so that they could only
use the earphones as the speaker circuit didn't work for
WorldSpace, and they moved every four months for economic
reasons and not every place was suitable for setting out the
WorldSpace without getting it ripped off.
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