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manteca said:

--- any chance that we can use this new anti-discriminatory law to force dish network to provide all the HD channels missing in Puerto Rico? - anyone can translate the document to english? ---

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http://www.daco.gobierno.pr/Repositorio/pdf/Orden_Administrativa__OADC__revisado_8_31_20112_Final.pdf

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The local goverment can do nothing I have been with dish since 99 its better than they other cable companies in the including including DirectvLatin America but Directv US will be here on May next year watch out Dish you can easily loose at lot of customers

neljtorres said:

The local goverment can do nothing I have been with dish since 99 its better than they other cable companies in the including including DirectvLatin America but Directv US will be here on May next year watch out Dish you can easily loose at lot of customers

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Where u get that information Nel....that is news for me. DirectvLATAM sucks so much....I will take Onelink over it anyway.

Dish IMO is the best although I dont have any experience with Liberty cable...which some of my friends say is the best. Dish should be able to provide us in PR some more HD channels....esp the networks (ABC, FOX, NBC & CBS). But I am happy with Dish PLUS I can watch my sports (CRICKET (HD of Cricket needed (all of it), NBA & sometime MLB, Soccer, Tennis among others) with Dish only.

rajmarie said:

Where u get that information Nel....that is news for me. DirectvLATAM sucks so much....I will take Onelink over it anyway.

Dish IMO is the best although I dont have any experience with Liberty cable...which some of my friends say is the best. Dish should be able to provide us in PR some more HD channels....esp the networks (ABC, FOX, NBC & CBS). But I am happy with Dish PLUS I can watch my sports (CRICKET (HD of Cricket needed (all of it), NBA & sometime MLB, Soccer, Tennis among others) with Dish only.

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Sometimes you get this type of information playing secret spy games! They will launch a new sat Directv around october or novembre that will hav beams for Puerto Rico!
Only certain people from DirectvLatin America knows this info! I already knew it for a month and yes Dish knows it already they have discussed this in their last meeting here in
Puerto Rico.
Dish had a big party here last month in Hotel Sheraton in San Juan there a couple of things that are coming that I can't say yet until they give me the wink!

ljdonato said:

Nel must be a darn good spy or a millionaire, because he always come with new information for us in PR!! So he must be pretty good at spy games or is paying a lot to his "insider contacts"
And he has a great record of almost always being correct. :up

This could be great news, having competition.

Nel, if you can provide with a link, so we can read more...

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Direct PR is struggling against dish in PR. Due to onelink action some of my family moved to dish. They checked direct offer but choose dish because more bang for bucks. Hoping though directive gets their act together here. Better for everybody specially for us.

I do not believe that this law will pass Constitutional muster. There is a doctrine called "pre-emption". Think of the Constitution as a "contract" between the states (and for this purpose, Puerto Rico is a state). There are powers granted by the states as a group to the federal government and Congress can regulate an industry on a national basis, totally forclosing the states from making further rules on the subject. Courts have consistantly held that broadcasting is such an industry. The FCC makes ALL of the rules on that subject, states cannot make additional ones.

This would clearly go to court, not a Puerto Rican court, but the US District Court for the District of Columbia, and the appelate courts up from there, for years.

Further, it would be a simple matter for DISH to simply "sell" its Puerto Rican operations. Either legitimatly or to a dummy company, and thus avoid the issue.

The realtiy, of course, is that a little geographic and economic knowledge goes a long way. The Earth is round. Puerto Rico is 1000 miles further away from the signal than the mainland. Puerto Rican per capita income in 64% of that of the poorest state and about 55% of the national average. Pay TV is a luxury item that depends on disposable luxury income. According to the University of Puerto Rico, 97% of Puerto Ricans speak Spanish as a first language and, while 90% have at least some knowledge of English, 95% do not speak "fluent" English. DISH is a provider to TV services, the majority of which are in English.

rajmarie said:

Direct PR is struggling against dish in PR. Due to onelink action some of my family moved to dish. They checked direct offer but choose dish because more bang for bucks. Hoping though directive gets their act together here. Better for everybody specially for us.

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Yeah Raja they can do much their getting their ass whip! They are counting on Directv US my cousin from the south part of the Island is a supervior there and she tells me that they are praying each day to det that bird finish and in the air because they are gettin g their asses beaten real bad she tells me that the pressure is real bad for all the employees

Hi People

It is sad but a reality. I have to say that Sam hit it on the nail. It is true we are paying the same amount of money and not getting the same service. But this is regulated at a Federal level by the FCC and their is no way a local state law could be upheald against the constitution of the United States; that is the rule of the land as a Nation and PR is a territory with US citizens covered by that rule of the land. So PR law is a joke because it is not enforsable. The other point Sam brings is market economics; Puerto Rico per capita income is half of the rest of the nation. Go and defend that you supporters of the current status quo. Puerto Rico needs to be a state as soon as it can be done because of this and many other matters. Puerto Rico posses no political musle in congress where all the real laws that apply to PR are legislated and we do not have any say on that. So at the end I am sure that for Dish as a company with so many costumers on the island probably beign the #1 provider of pay TV here it is not a wise decision to pull out of the market. And eventually they will come around to understand that they need to provide the same service for the same price if they want to mantain their current lead on this market just because the market dictates it that way and not because of the local laughable laws beign put in place by the local government. For PR to make any real changes to polices implemented at a national level we have to become a state their is simply no other way around this.

As for the language barrier, even though is true that possibly the mayority does not speak fluent english that does not mean they do not understand it. I am sure the mayority of the peolple understand perfect english, is just that we do not get to practise it speaking it among owerselfs. But just ask any english speaking person that has come and visit Puerto Rico and they will tell you they have no problem speaking with people anywhere on the island. My father is the perfect example of this he has been here for more than 40 years and still does not speak good spanish and uses english for work as for his daily day to day. That clearly means people here have no problem with the english language in practice. Hell that is the real reason Dish is king here because people are seeking the english programing and that is why Direct TV with their Latin American programing is just clearly not giving the poeple what they want. People here are already expresed that consern with Direct TV. Puerto Rico is clearly on matters of language at an advantage over any other American in the nation, we have knowledge and access to both languages since we are born. So Sam in this point I disagree with you; I got to sitll see any regular American try and speak spanish fluently or even at a level that we in Puerto Rico speak english. Simply their is no comparison we have an advantage there. And if you think for a second that in the near future you are not going to need spanish you are in for a big wake up call.