Originally Posted by John Bradley

Dont worry about them going out... Garmin has a HUGE stake in them staying around.
The Aviation side of XM is huge and Garmin is the largest supplier of XM based weather/Radio GPS units. It's 60 bucks a month just for my XM weather in my plane and I would'nt fly anywhere far without it.. We all might be paying Garmin for our satelite radio each month one day.