Originally Posted by
elTiTANio
I'm a sirius customer in Puerto Rico, thats on the eastern caribbean. I've used the service for a couple of years locally and I'm observing a dramatic signal strength and quality of reception after August 24, 2009.
Ever before to this date the service here in Puerto Rico has been very fringe. Until now any customer could actually activate radios in PR (a US territory) under the premise that the service could not be guaranteed because of being outside the contiguous US, and the absence of local terrestrial repeaters.
I can report after using the service on my daily road routines for the past two days that it barely skips reception (as it used to do somewhat frequent before, usually at specific times); and the satellite signal strenght bars that used to be below half strenght, have increased almost to full signal stat.
As a customer, I may conclude that the FM-5 started in operation on August 24 2009.