@Future-Next-Gen-S2000-Owner Isn't the case here that the auto manufacturing business units are separate businesses than OnStar?
As such, their leadership is a full "hell no" to burying the OnStar cost into the car price and having it drag down their margin.
So I suppose what happens is that Corporate say's well we need the volume and the car units say fine, we will make it a required subscription just so everybody knows the $$ amount and why they are paying it,
I think here that OnStar is a boat anchor that nobody wants and GM is doing what they can to make it pay the freight. The problem is that they have sunk a whole lot of cost per car and overhead into a product that consumers don't think they need and sure don't want to pay for......
And PS, a product that none of their competitors think they need either.
This all started when some visionary thought mobile automotive communications would be such a game changer and that all we need is to put up a fleet of satellites to make it happen. Too bad they didn't consider that in 15 years the country would be covered with cell phone towers.....