Kevin Maney looks at the bigger picture: OK, so the FCC after 17 months(!) seems finally ready to approve the merger between the two satellite radio companies, XM and Sirius. Regulators have a concern that there will be no competitors left in the satellite radio industry. But, if you look not very far ahead, that's like worrying that there will be no competitors in the chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream-making industry. Satellite radio has a lot of happy customers, but even today it's not even remotely the only way to pipe music and news into your car. Besides regular radio and possible coming digital radio broadcasts, let's take a scenario that's taking form today. Already, owners of the new 3G iPhone are discovering the Internet radio -- especially the Pandora service -- work great on the device. That's a pretty...
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