This is not true. At one time, the customer had to go through a process to qualify for distant networks. DISH no longer offers those, so they no longer require a customer to qualify as an RV'er. DISH also had a RV section of csr's trained to handle such, they no longer do. I've changed my service address many times in the 8 years I've been full time RV'ing, and I've never told DISH I was an RV'er nor furnished any paperwork.
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This is not true. At one time, the customer had to go through a process to qualify for distant networks. DISH no longer offers those, so they no longer require a customer to qualify as an RV'er. DISH also had a RV section of csr's trained to handle such, they no longer do. I've changed my service address many times in the 8 years I've been full time RV'ing, and I've never told DISH I was an RV'er nor furnished any paperwork.
You seem to be assuming that viewing DISH in an RV requires an RV account. I don't think that's the case unless you have no "permanent" residence to support a residential account. I would think any distant waivers issues requiring OTR truck or RV registration documentation went away when DISH ceased offering them.
Further, DISH doesn't handle mobile accounts directly; they handed that off to mobile dealers some time ago.
At one point I was one of those RV "specialists". I'll tell you a funny fact, those specialists were the broadband team(which is why I keep saying ask for broadband). I was also there when they eliminated the RV differation. I was not directly affected, as I got promoted as a supervisor the same day they eliminated it. Now it is just the advance tech team that handles those calls(I think it got even worse as I was leaving and now is just frontline agents with the same equipment training). Basically we got the same training as advanced tech, except we didn't send out techs. If a tech was necessary, we referred to a dealer. All broadband agents are advance tech trained first. Just to give a little insight.
Bottom line you are aloud to have 2 Vip211s active on your Hopper account to use for Home use and With the Tailgater.
None of those past Waivers apply anymore.
None of those past Waivers apply anymore.
Oh yea, that is one of the big technicalities. If hopper account the amount and type of receivers allowed is of significant more importance from a customers perspective, than on non hopper accounts. Hell, a non hopper account can even take 722's with them, and if purchased, I believe they can have up to 6 or 7, but to be honest I forgot that number a few years ago(was not important).
Yes, We were going buy a 722k for our Travel Trailer But Dish wouldn't allow us to add it to our account.
So I'm just going to pay the EHD fee and take my 211z when we go.
Yea, that's the PITA. I found a cheap cheap 722 I could have got($20 give or take) that I verified to be owned and clear, and could do anything with it because I'm a dual hopper customer.
You are correct that I was assuming that. I did not know there is no proof required anymore. I guess that makes sense with no qualification for Distants. The rest of my post would hold true, DISH was in trouble for giving Distants ( and two sets of locals) by not matching location given to ability to get Distants. Giving locals based on where you say you are probably isn't an issue if DISH has nothing to say differently.
Free for anyone that hasn't had an activation or installation in the last 12 months. The post was more along the lines of customers giving fake addresses. There is no need to verify the address using a technician as a customer can move their stuff on their own. I have seen it done, when a tech date is 30+ days out(this was around the oil fields 2-3 years ago).
Yup. There is no need or requirement that Dish verifies the address. The only caveat I can remember was when a certain market went down(which ever one went down the same time as AMC) , Dish got threats from the channel owner for a lawsuit for knowingly helping a customer bypass the FCC regulation and "moving" their service. It then came down to if the customer said they were performing a fake move, then we can't do it, but if they just say they want to update their address, we were not allowed to question it(probably for revenue purposes and customer satisfaction purposes, never got an unofficial answer on that one).
Sure you can. I do that all the time.
There is nothing stopping you from opening a 2nd Dish account and activating the 722 with Welcome Pack to get different locals, if you wanted to do that. Heck, the additional receiver fee for a 722 costs almost as much as Welcome Pack, anyway.
