Hall
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| Financial trouble ?
Dish has the money that's been decided/awarded from the earlier court case sitting in a fund specifically for the time when they finally "lose". They even mention it in their annual report filing.
said by KathrynV  : In part due to these issues, Dish has been consistently losing market share to DirecTV. When/where have these two issues been tied together ? The average consumer neither knows nor cares about court/patent battles that a company is involved in. |
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dvd536
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| said by Hall :Dish has the money that's been decided/awarded from the earlier court case sitting in a fund specifically for the time when they finally "lose". They even mention it in their annual report filing. said by KathrynV : In part due to these issues, Dish has been consistently losing market share to DirecTV. When/where have these two issues been tied together ? The average consumer neither knows nor cares about court/patent battles that a company is involved in. They do when it shows up as a line item compliance fee on their bills.
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DataDoc
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said by Hall : The average consumer neither knows nor cares about court/patent battles that a company is involved in. They will when their DVR gets shut off by court order. |
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Hall
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| said by DataDoc : They will when their DVR gets shut off by court order. How many times has it been announced "Dish must shut down DVRs due to court finding" ? It's been more than once... and they're still working today.
Besides, I asked how Dish losing market share and these issues are related (turns out the story here was just a lot of re-wording of the Multichannel News article anyway). If a customer's DVR did get shut off, they're obviously already a Dish customer, and therefore not part of the "lost" market share. |
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NOCMan
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Flower Mound, TX | That court order was on the news papers and even local news stations in the DFW area. Trust me people heard about it. |
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Hall
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Dayton, OH | And did people leave ? For the record, and you can get this from their annual report, Dish had just over 13 million customers in 2006 and for 2007, they had a little under 14 million. So, they gained customers... |
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