EchoStar / Dish’s Path Forward

[John2021]

But those monopolies are just getting bigger, buying everything they can!

I can agree with that!!!

 

[Yespage]

Big cable simply waited to long to develop DOCSIS 4.0 and now there under fire from all sides trying to sell an inherently inferior product

Gosh, if Monopoly came out today, it'd been a 2 x 2 grid.

 

[david_jr]

Dish Network since 97 here. When Spectrum fiber came to our home, 6 or so years ago, we gladly left our 20 year DSL Internet service for that. The Spectrum salesman sold me on trying Spectrum TV, to get "free" installation. He said the cost of TV for one month was the same as the price of the install without TV. He said if you don't like the TV you can cancel it after a month with no extra charge. So the tech comes and installs our new fiber to the modem service and hands me a Roku and tells me to go create a Roku account while he does the fiber install. I say what is the Roku for, he says for Spectrum TV on the Spectrum app. Well the missus tried it for a few minutes and said forget it I'm not using it I can't stand a remote with no numbers on it. I want to keep my dish remote. She will not even consider using the Roku remote. So when I called to cancel the Spectrum TV after one month, they told me they could cancel it for me however I would lose my one year of discounted service pricing on the fiber internet unless I keep the TV for a year also. I asked if there was any way not to lose the discount if I cancel TV. They said I could take Spectrum Mobile service for a year and I could keep my discount. So I lost my discount. Nice way to start with a new company's service huh? The Spectrum Fiber is the bees knees. It is fast and more reliable than our electricity service. We are the last house on the electrical loop in the sticks so if there's a break anywhere upstream of here the power is out. I start the generator and sure as shootin' the Spectrum Internet is working. And no she's still not willing to consider leaving Dish.