Hi am am a retailer for DISH now for three years and I want to tell you guys that I can not tell you the number of customers that call me wanting to get wildblue internet or wanting to upgradfe their Dish system and find out that if the have a bundled bill that they have to go through the phone company to do any of that. I have had several customers wanting wildblue and have to get their bills unbundled for me to install it or they can not even get it because ATT owns the account. They all have told me the savings is not worth the nightmare it creates. Also it takes ATT a month or better to unbundle it so I can do the promotion on that customer. So my feelings are the Direct tv retailers and customers can now experience this nightmare. I am not trying to be mean just thought I would share this and it does happen ALOT. Also I don't know wht everyone hates DISH because I really switch ALOT of people over to DISH from Direct. With the dual tuners and the DVR advantage and the cheaper programming packages available alot of customers can save from $10.00 to twenty bucks a month. Have a good evening and by the way I don't hate DIRECT TV I just am making a comment I know is true. Thanks everyone
There are alot of previous Dish subscribers here but only I can speak for myself.Why do I dislike Dish?.Is it because Dish loses channels like VOOM.MLB and during contract negotiations I lost channels, I woke up one morning and they were gone!.Oh we gradually got them back.Dish cited they were standing up to the greedy programmers to save me money.Then the next Feb. my package increased $3.
Is it because Dish charges a DVR fee per DVR where DirecTV doesn't or the program reduction fee?,or when you have the protection plan with Dish you still have to pay $30. for service?.So you can see why Dish may look cheaper on the outside but Dish can end up being more expensive on the inside.As for channels with Dish? If Dish thinks they are too much money they don't have them,where DirecTV does.All you have to do is compare channels.Plus DirecTV is more generous with their customer rebates.
I never thought I would ever have DirecTV.I really don't care for sports,but I sure like DirecTV's national basic channel selection.There are other problems with Dish,but I don't need to wipe my feet on them.They are doing a good job all by themselves and it would seem AT&T believes this also.
Here's something else to consider.AT&T is seeing DirecTV signing up all these subscribers and they want a share of that.