Using multiple DirecTV receivers (Score 2, Informative)

If you only have 1 DirecTV receiver then it's true, you don't have to have it connected to a land-based telephone line. BUT, if you have multiple DirecTV receivers in your home, then you MUST connect them all to a telephone jack in your house or EACH of the receivers will be charged the full monthly subscription price. So, let's say you have 3 DirecTV receivers in your house and you've signed up for the $39.99 per month DirecTV package...if you don't connect any of the receivers to a telephone jack then the total monthly price would be, 3 receivers times $39.99 for a total of approx. $120 per month!!! If you connect all of your receivers to a phone jack then DirecTV only charges you $4.99 for the second and third receiver. I can tell you for a fact that this is what they do. DishNetwork on the other hand doesn't have this policy. DishNetwork does NOT require you to connect any of your receivers to a phone jack, and they will only charge $4.99 per month for each additional receiver. So, in summary, if you have only one receiver, you won't have any problem with either DishNetwork or DirecTV as far as not having them hooked up to a phone jack, but if you have more than one receiver in your house, then DirecTV pretty much forces you to connect all of them to a phone jack or you'll pay a huge monthly subscription price for each receiver. Hope this helps.