Dish patent application for temporary subscription updates

mike123abc said:

I do not see Dish losing at all on this, no matter how many times a user upgrades. If I remember correctly Dish pays on the average number of subs for a month to a provider. So, Dish in reality only pays a prorated amount anyways if you were to subscribe one day per month, you would only count as 1/30 of a subscriber, so if 30 subs do 1 day each, Dish in effect just pays for 1 more sub in fees.

The key of course is how much Dish charges for an "upgrade". They could ruin it all together if they for example charge $5 each time. Then it would be at most a 1-2 times per month upgrade. They need to make it in the cheap, but borderline need to upgrade range, i.e. $1-$3 per day.

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