I agree, but it should be interesting to see if E* posts a third straight quarter where they lost subscribers. With the loss of their resale agree with A&T, Verizon adding more than 100K FiOS TV subscribers per month during 4th quarter and AT&T adding more than 60K U-Verse subscribers per month, I get the feeling Dish Network will post losing more than 70K customers during the 4th quarter. While the economy is terrible shape, DirecTV appears to be moving forward while Dish Network is stuck in reverse. I cannot see how their confusing pricing and packaging can possibly put them back on the track.
Of course confusing pricing, removing channels do not help, but notice all the reasons you mentioned, confusing pricing and packaging are not a part of them.
D* in the last three quarters added a net 2.5% gain in sub count, not bad but still not nearly as 10% if we go by our own assumption.
All I am saying is while it is fine to complain, but we need to keep in mind we are not as important as we like to think for ourselves