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    DISH Network Reports Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results

    Wall Street analysts and weathermen have a nice job -- they can be totally wrong on a regular basis and people still will ask for their opinions. DISH Net: DirecTV: So analysts expected DishNet to gain 4 times as many new subscribers as DirecTV. So much for knowing what they are talking about.
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    DISH Network Reports Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results

    Great explanation. I like it. Maybe the satellite TV companies should have the same regulation as cell phone companies: make them write in the contract that if there is a "material adverse change" that the customers must be released from their contract without early termination fees. This...
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    DISH Network Reports Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results

    Now here's something ironic. Remember the big brou-ha-ha back in 2005 when Clark, Texas renamed itself DISH, Texas in exchange for 10 years of free DISH Network for everyone in town? At the time, DISH, TX had about 345 residents. Now (5 years later), they have 218. That means, in the 5 years...
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    DISH Network Reports Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results

    As fun as that would be to claim, since the "next new quarter" began on July 1st, I highly doubt you are the "first sub loss of the next new quarter". At their current rate, you probably aren't even in the first 10,000 sub losses of the quarter. Maybe if you stayed with them until October 1...
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    Is there a reputable company, that can backup a VIP 722 to DVD

    Since DVDs aren't HD, it appears that HD was not a condition of the OP.
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    Has Dish lost another teleco bundling partner?

    DirecTV pips rival DISH from CenturyLink web
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    Has Dish lost another teleco bundling partner?

    Then that's the problem. With DirecTV's telco bundling partners, you still call DirecTV for customer service, including billing disputes, programming changes, equipment orders, etc. The only thing the telco does is print the DirecTV charges on their bill. If a DirecTV/Telco bundle customer...
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    Has Dish lost another teleco bundling partner?

    If DishNet is excluding telco-bundled customers from promos that their non-bundled customers are eligible for, they have no one to blame but themselves. An easy fix: let all of your customers, bundled or not, be eligible for the promos.
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    Has Dish lost another teleco bundling partner?

    Will that also include the new Frontier areas that until July 1st were Verizon areas? Or will Frontier keep DishNet in their original areas, and keep DirecTV in their new areas? I predict another change in the near future, just don't know which way they'll go.
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    Has Dish lost another teleco bundling partner?

    DirecTV Says It Is New Satellite TV Partner For CenturyLink Does this leave any telco partners for DishNet?
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    Has Dish lost another teleco bundling partner?

    I doubt their DishNet contract would allow that, but something similar happened in the opposite direction when AT&T (then, a DishNet partner) took over BellSouth (a DirecTV partner). You never know.
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    Has Dish lost another teleco bundling partner?

    As mentioned earlier in the thread, CenturyLink goofed in the graphic. They show a DishNet receiver and remote in the ad for DirecTV service:
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    Dish Payment Enforcement

    And even after years on Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus' name was misspelled on her Hollywood Walk of Fame star. Apparently having a hit show doesn't translate to name recognition for some of them. Now that's amusing.
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    Swanni asking Dish and Direct TV customers to demand AMC HD

    Swanni has the bad habit of assuming "how the satcasters are underestimating the interest" in anything that he happens to be interested in at the moment. He has yet to figure out that he's not all that important in the scheme of things. AMC? <yawn> Maybe back when AMC stood for something...
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    Dish Payment Enforcement

    What? :eek: Since when? :rolleyes: These companies don't operate as charities. A little flexibility can go a long way in customer satisfaction and loyalty. But if there is no chance that the customer will be able to break the habit and start paying when expected, it makes better business...
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    AAD Distant Nets

    Good gravy. When did I suggest they were the same service? Why does it matter if they are the same service or not? The rule states you can have as many antennas as you need "to receive the desired service". The rule doesn't limit your "desired service" to one company. If your "desired...
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    AAD Distant Nets

    If it takes that many companies' antennas "to receive the desired service", then that is exactly what the rule states. In a rental situation, of course, you are limited to the area that is considered "exclusive use or control of the tenant". But I was originally talking about multiple dishes...
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    AAD Distant Nets

    Any place that says you can only have "1 Dish out side the house" is violating the OTARD rules:
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    So who's jumping ship? and a message to Charlie

    Has anyone else noticed that people tend to use the "my friend" line when they are talking down to someone they think is being stupid? Just an observation. (A certain former presidential candidate and current Senator from Arizona does it all the time.) As for the main point of the thread --...
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    DISH Network and Echostar Statement Regarding PTO Ruling

    If I committed a crime last week, and this week the legislature voted to change the law so that my action last week is no longer a crime, wouldn't they still prosecute me based on what the law was at the time? Even though the patent may no longer be in effect, it was in effect at the time of...
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    DISHOnline testing legit?

    Still could be the work of a rogue employee using Mr Sparkling Cider's name without his permission. Anyone can spoof an e-mail address. Call me paranoid, but until they post an apology or press release directly on the dishonline.com site, I wouldn't trust it.
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    DISHOnline testing legit?

    Way to get yourself fired, dude. You just admitted to something that is possibly a violation of company policy, and left a trail for them to find you. If you did post "this on the internal BB", surely they can track who posts there? And if they can, they now know that you have posted internal...
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    DISHOnline testing legit?

    Apparently I was wrong about the phishing attempt. Mea culpa. But it was still a ridiculously stupid way of handling the situation. They should have: * sent the e-mail from a corporate "@dishnetwork.com" or "@dishonline.com" email account, * used BCC so they don't reveal the names and e-mail...
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    DISHOnline testing legit?

    Then it was definitely handled poorly. Revealing the names and e-mail addresses of other beta testers was ridiculously stupid. A simple BCC would have kept the names and e-mail addresses of other beta testers private.
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    DISHOnline testing legit?

    If this is a legitimate company communication, surely this is a violation of their privacy rules: revealing a list of names and contact information like email addresses to other customers is surely a privacy violation if not a violation of law. And it wasn't an accident -- there wouldn't be a...
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