No stink'n phone line
I don't even have a land line in my house, and I get NFL package, no problem.
I really don't know why DircTV says to hook up a phone line, maybe its their way of accessing my viewing habits via a 2 way comm link? I do know when I've called for technical issues, they have no problem sending down resets to my receiver so I'm guessing the phone line is simply for them to get information sent back up to them.