I have a Dish Network DVR. How can I avoid paying the 5 dollar fee for not having a land line phone?

Question

Dish is charging me 5 bucks a month b/c I don't have a land line that I can hook to the DVR. I have a wireless internet connection. Does a device like a HomePlug work in this case? What is the simplest way to avoid paying this fee? I don't think my satellite provider should be dictating to me that I must have a phone in my house.

Question - Isn't the link you provided for a device to add a jack to a house that already has a land line phone. My problem isn't that I need a new phone jack. I have a jack, but don't have land line service.

Answer 1

Buy a wireless phone jack. They sell them in pairs, one connects to your phone line, you put the other one next to your DVR. They pay for themselves in no time.

Here is an example
http://www.smarthome.com/4509i.html

Answer 2

I used to paintings of their technical provider call middle. the reason of the telephone line fee is for twin tuners (working 2 tvs with a million rcvr). The older kind receivers in elementary terms perform a million television so any further ones on your account fee $5 fee. they provide you the income to maintain 5 dollars by means of hooking up the telephone line to stay away from further receiver expenses. additionally with the aid of fact its an costly piece of apparatus and that they p.c. to be attentive to the place that's. the telephone line is how they shop music of the place the container is at, additionally that's helpful to dispute ppv's. the telephone line is for the Dish homestead channel it is on channel one hundred enables you to get billing archives and so on. in case you order your ppv's online you're actually not charged a value. during the a million-800 selection that's a greenback and a stay agent is 5 dollars.

Answer 3

Hi SimplePsych,

I am surprised that dish wouldn't be set up to handle updating the DVR from the Internet.

Have you asked them about that. I would call them and check.

Norm