The other part of that, investors want to see a possibility of growth, yet all three segments (Dish, Hughes, Boost) are showing no possibility of that, especially from the under 35 group, no one wants to invest in something where subscribers are leaving and/or dying and no one is replacing them.
So why not stuff a check in envelope and mail it?...or set up credit card autopay the first time they call?
Stereotypical response, age has nothing to do with it. Either you're up with technology or you're not, irregardless of your age. I've met a lot of young people who have no concept of how to program a timer much less connect wirelessly to their own wi-fi. By the way I'm 83 and I've been into technology since before it was called technology.
There is a great "old" book by Fisher on how these things can get resolved . He was a professor at Harvard? and taught a course on successful negotiations and consulted for individuals, companies and countries.
Right. It has nothing to do with age and everything to do with your own personal will to learn and continue learning.Stereotypical response, age has nothing to do with it. Either you're up with technology or you're not, irregardless of your age. I've met a lot of young people who have no concept of how to program a timer much less connect wirelessly to their own wi-fi. By the way I'm 83 and I've been into technology since before it was called technology.
Maybe it is stereotypical, but there's also quite a bit of truth to it. I have 2 neighbors in their 80's who still pay all their bills via snail mail. They refuse to do anything online or by automatic draft.Stereotypical response, age has nothing to do with it. Either you're up with technology or you're not, irregardless of your age. I've met a lot of young people who have no concept of how to program a timer much less connect wirelessly to their own wi-fi. By the way I'm 83 and I've been into technology since before it was called technology.
This is true... the programmers thought they were smart by selling direct to consumer, and look at the issues they are having now.
They are having problems because of lost per sub fees, advertising revenue way down also.
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BECAUSE they had shot themselves in the feet so many times. If they had stuck to a model of "customer first" rather than chiseling at every turn, including supporting & promoting local responsible servicing, they wouldn't have had to go to such progressively greater extents of "freebies" to keep signing new subs, simply to overcome their loss of general esteem & goodwill. Their loss of referral-driven new business. Part of this "expense" to keep getting new subs consisted in paying old subs to prod signups- a customer-first service wouldn't have needed to PAY them to generate referral! Like in the early DiSH days, they wouldn't have been able to shut up about how much they liked DiSH! They simply got into a doom loop of loss of luster, 2-year subs and $400 gift cards.
But was used as a excuse why per sub fees went up so much, because of the lost advertising revenue.
Both my kids, 29/34, have never had a Live TV Service since they left home for College.
Programming is expensive for all services.
That is a understatement.
Only a part of it, but TV Providers have been hated for a long time because of their business practices.
Exactly. They were publicly TRAINED not to stay by the general loss of good regard for the provider (vs. competitor) owing to their customer-negative business practices, said training then being REINFORCED by increasing freebies handed out for switching providers. IOW DiSH found itself attempting to PURCHASE goodwill through, like with addiction, dumping increasing amounts of "crack" on new signers, to compensate for its having thrown away traditional values of customer-centered service in a prioritization of signups over servicing. Death spiral. Sure, there would regardless today be effects of "cord cutting," etc., but they would in all likelihood have been able to remain a "going concern" for years longer despite market difficulties simply by having done the viewing public right in the first place.
with all of the scams & hacking of credit cards, banks, etc., who can blame them
