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Before I start my thoughts I would like to say a few Thank Yous!

First thank you to everyone! In only 2 months and 4 days we have broken the 1,000 member mark! Never in my wildest dreams did I expect SatelliteGuys.US to get so big so quick!

Thank you to those who have donated to keep us FREE, as the people who have donated know our costs have gone up greatly since when we first launch just 2 months ago.

If your thinking of donating THANK YOU, we could use the support especially at this time as I am working on something that will greatly increase our bandwidth costs.

As many of you know we do make money from SatelliteGuysStore.COM / DishStore.NET however we have not received anything yet from this venture (but hope to soon!)

Now on to my commentary.

First my thoughts on last night's Charlie Chat...

(Gump mode on) My Mama always said... "if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all." So taking mama's advice, that's all I got to say about that

Second as you may have noticed many members have received notices in the mail to plug their phone lines into their receivers. This has caused an uproar.

I didn't really think to much of it until last night after the Charlie Chat, when I got an email from one of my contacts, this email contained a document for Dish Retailers about the 322 and 522 receivers. A paragraph caught my eye... It read as follows...

Please note, each DISH 322 and DISH Player-DVR 522 dual tuner receiver requires a constant phone line connection. Customers who do not have a phone line continually connected to their DISH 322 and DISH Player-DVR 522 receiver will have to pay a monthly programming access 4.99 per receiver.

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Now when I thought about this some more and factored in the phone line letters being sent out something HUGE popped into my mind.

Now understand this is 100% PURE SPECULATION ON MY PART none of what I am going to say has been confirmed by anyone.

If I put the pieces of the puzzle together correctly, I believe that Dish Network will be dropping the additional outlet fees on all receivers which are plugged into a phone line!

Read the above quote from the Retailer Document. Receivers which are NOT continually plugged into a phone line will be charged a programming access fee (additional receiver fee) of $4.99 per receiver.

In doing this Dish Network could serve a severe blow to DirecTV and Digital Cable (Digital Cable charges up to $9 a month for additional Digital outlets!)

This would be good for most consumers as they could save a good amount of money on their monthly bills. If a user did not want to hook up their phone lines they could continue to pay the $4.95 a month additional receiver fee.

This is good for Dish Network because now people wanting multiple rooms of service would choose Dish over DirecTV or Digital Cable and Dish Network would also recover money lost from customers who have filled up their smart cards with PPV purchases yet have never hooked a phone line to their units so that the purchases could be recorded and properly billed.

This also makes the new DVOD fees more palatable, Dish would rather have their customers in DVR units then standard settops because DVR customers have less churn.

From my standpoint it's a win win for everyone.

Again I will say that all the above it just pure speculation on my part. But looking at the facts and benefits the pieces of the puzzle do fit together nicely.

Lastly if you have been reading here over the past two month you will notice that I have been saying December will be a big month for Dish. After last nights chat I got a few messages from some of my contacts about the chat and all of them seem to say that December will be the month to watch. Now sometimes people call me the eternal optimist, but knowing whats coming in Equipment and a good idea of whats coming in programmings I believe that Decembers Charlie Chat will be a holiday treat for all. (I hope I am right)

Anyways that's my thought's for this month, now let's hear yours!