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Oct 24, 2010 | 09:40 AM

JhonnyLever

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Realtime Traffic & Sirius Question

For the realtime traffic to work does one have to maintain the Sirius satellite subscription?

Oct 24, 2010 | 09:44 AM

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For the realtime traffic to work does one have to maintain the Sirius satellite subscription?

Yes, but Sirius has a traffic only plan that's only a couple of bucks a month.

Oct 24, 2010 | 10:55 AM

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For the realtime traffic to work does one have to maintain the Sirius satellite subscription?

There are two different subscriptions..one for real time traffic and another for radio itself. When you call to Sirius - they want you to subscribe to both of them. If you don't need a Radio - just ask them for Real time traffic update only. About $80 for 2 years.

Oct 29, 2010 | 02:18 AM

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yeap! i felt so naked when my traffic disappeared. i felt like my GPS was useless! I had some to depend on it so much.

FYI, there is different technology that runs the traffic. Acura and BMW uses the free radio broadcasts, only bad thing about that is radio stations only send them out every 30 minutes. With Sirus it's instantaneous. But you have to pay for it

Oct 29, 2010 | 03:01 AM

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fwiw, in addition to Sirius live traffic, you get enhanced traffic and/or operator delivered traffic if you have Teleaid. Just hit the 'i' button. It's also instant and immediately up-to-date.

Oct 30, 2010 | 08:07 AM

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the acura system gets much, much less info too. driving in nyc area I use this daily and it saves me loads of time. Its not always accurate but is pretty good.

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