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I also didn't know the 922 was still supported, you might have the last 2 still activated! If you plan to stay with Dish, you might want to swap those 922s out for Wallys, it will cut your fees considerably. Dish has also been good about giving monthly discounts to loyal customers. Between the...

No CRTs? I thought that was the big thing right now.

Yes, but there is no Wi-Fi built in so you need to plug an ethernet cable in or purchase the Wi-Fi adapter.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fccs-push-to-let-spacex-use-echostars-spectrum-gets-weird-and-ugly

With 99.9% certainty I can say those contracts will be discharged in bk.

I work from home and like to have the news on mute in the background, it's nice to not have it eating up internet bandwidth. I have an owned Wally so no fees, OTA antenna for locals and with the $30/mo discount I think it's worth it. I love the service, but the content is lacking (not Dish's fault).

Why what?

I'll probably stick around another year if they renew my $30/mo discount, otherwise they're gone.

Not a conversation with me, I was just speculating what they're betting on.

They need a differentiator like a remote with a numerical keypad.

My money is on you having that delicious meal.

I don't remember them ever talking about 5G home, at first it was this weird IoTs which never made sense.

Can't have subscribers without working satellites, they're betting on rural and traditional subscribers that don't want to or can't stream, along with DirecTV going all streaming.

It wouldn't cost much to develop an Android box with a remote similar to Dish with channel numbers. This seems to be the biggest complaint I hear from people moving to streaming services.

That's the problem with the entire industry!