As a loyal Dish Customer for 24 years 7 months I enjoyed watching Charlie Ergan, Candy Ergan, and Jim DeFranco give the history of Dish. It makes me appreciate the risks and the hard work that they did to establish Dish network.
I recently renegotiated a two year price lock. I downgraded from 250 channels to 200 channels + Dish movie pack for $177.45 per month. I realize streaming is cheaper but I truly enjoy my two Hopper 3 receivers and my Joey 3 client.
My cell phone is currently T-Mobile that I have through my son. He says he pays approximately $40 per month for my line.
I am going to investigate Dish Boost Mobile. They claim the cost for current Dish customers is $15 per month forever for unlimited talk, text, and data. I live halfway between Plain City and Marysville Ohio so if the reception is good I will probably switch. I own my IPhone 12 Pro Max so I would keep my existing phone.
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Good luck with that. As a dealer I enjoyed their recounting of early sat installing days and becoming a distributor, like how they decided to change the name from Echosphere to Echostar after seeing that Japanese couldn't pronounce it. They began literally as one of us, one of tens of thousands of dealers across the country, then as one of 100s (or, 'hunderds' as Charlie would say, half-pronouncing it in German) of equipment distributors, then purchasing one of the best of the dozens of supplier/manufacturers, HTS. Then of course the startup of DiSH- there were so many c-band dealers then that DTV/USSB had actually left many out of being able to do them in '94-'95 and had further opted to sell gear direct to user through retail stores. Whilst DiSH otoh appealed to the quite many big-dish dealers still going, promising to center on them as key to customer satisfaction and "delivering the promise that cable broke".
But then there I saw it, not long after we started putting them in- ad in Parade magazine, NOT to refer a dealer, but to purchase directly from them. Asked about it, I was told that their callcenter CSRs "deserved to make some money, too". Also they had badly
wanted to also be in all the big-box stores (direct-selling, of course) but DTV/USSB (always thought they were like the USSR) had locked up exclusives with most. So meanwhile yeah, they let us dealers all sign up to do DiSH, and then some- all kinds of people who had never been around offair or satellite but HAD been around scamming all their lives. They made account
activation their payoff proposition rather than completed installation and satisfaction, and so guess what, all the scammers sold people and "activated" them with DiSH with no installed system. Or sold and installed them at an exorbitant price whilst telling them the service is free for life. Well then guess what, now we're all crooks, the good & the bad, and so they start "punishing" us with ever more draconian "business rules" and chargebacks of commissions. He even took away promised residuals, which resulted in a lawsuit by dealers and damages awarded. Whilst persisting in prioritizing selling over satisfying. And whilst of course continuing to ramp their direct-sell. They even helped their direct-sold customer out by sending him a "free self-install kit" so he could just put up his own DiSH!
So I guess liking (or trusting) DiSH is simply a matter of perspective.
