Pricing Update from Dish Network

[jerryez]

My bill went down $.11. Better than up!

[KAB]

Anybody with two dual tuners on their account will see a price increase of $7-9 if they had their phone lines plugged in. That amount to me is signifigant.

$6.00 (in six months). Not a bank breaker.

[whatchel1]

So sat providers will soon only be E* & D*. C-band is going away very soon as reported in the Sky Report.
C-Band at the End?

Looks like the consumer C-Band business will be dead and gone by the end of this year. After hearing from several retailers about rumors that Motorola would cease its authorization stream, we started making inquires. No response from Motorola but Mike Monfort of National Programming Service (NPS) confirms that the demise is likely.

"We had a conference call in late December when Motorola talked about discontinuing the authorization stream on April 15th," Monfort says. After some protests and concerted lobbying, the giant manufacturer boosted prices by 20%, agreed to continue service until the end of the year and said they will then decide the future.

Motorola will almost certainly discontinue the service, Monfort says, so his National Programming Service (NPS) has ceased selling annual subscriptions. That's bad news for many retailers and C-Band's current 22,606 subscribers. "The people who are left love their C-Band," Monfort says. But Motorola apparently finds the business inconvenient ... and so an era is coming to an end.•

[yaz96]

$6.00 (in six months). Not a bank breaker.

$6.00 a month!!??? Not a lot? Who are you kidding?

I'm as tired of you as you are of Bob. You post your rhetoric just as much as he does....

[odbrv]

Well my bill just arrived via e-mail. I have 2 622s and a 4700 with AEP package. I have multisport , superstations, DHPP, HD&platinum. Total increase $17.14 or 12%. I even lost $1 in the loyalty area. My last bill included the last of 12 $10 loyalty rebates. This bill includes a $4 loyalty ( 1 of 6) and $5 receiver credit(1 of 6). The state sales tax went up $1.12.

In a year that we didn't get a Social Security increase and our company retirement plan reduced our income by $10,000 per year due to a poor economy, the E* increase is hard to take. In my rural area I have no other options. D* doesn't carry our locals. So my only option is to find the extra $17.14 now and $26.14 in 6 months or reduce programming and equipment. If we reduce programming and equipment, both E* and I lose. I get less satisfaction with their service and if D* ever offers us a better deal with locals we bolt. E*'s cost to have us as a customer is pretty much a constant. So ,if we reduce our payment to them, their cost increase was a dumb business model. It will actually result in less revenue and a dissatified customer.

UPDATE: just called E* to complain and find out when my contract expires. They gave me a $5 discount for the next 10 months. They also reccommended I drop the 4700 and hook its output to one of my 622s I use in the single mode. I would need 2 additional #2 622 remotes. The quoted me $19.99 each with my DPHH service. I will do the switch first and see how well it works with the 1 #2 remote that came with the 622. If it works well I will order the extra remotes.

[KAB]

$6.00 a month!!??? Not a lot? Who are you kidding?

I'm as tired of you as you are of Bob. You post your rhetoric just as much as he does....

Who said you could leave the song name game thread?

[yaz96]

Who said you could leave the song name game thread?

Who said you could spew your opinions everywhere?

Apparently it's OK for you, but not Bob.

And was that comment about the song name game supposed to be an insult?

[KAB]

Who said you could spew your opinions everywhere?

Apparently it's OK for you, but not Bob.

I learned from you and Hemi.

[yaz96]

Hemi and I have learned to get along, maybe you can do the same with Bob.

And there were many more people than Hemi and I involved in the VOOM drama.




Back on topic, $6.00 a month is a lot to most people!

[KAB]

And just what did my $6.00/not a bank breaker post have to do with Bob?