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>Date: Fri,  6 May 2005 16:37:05 -0400
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Lee,

A delayed but hopefully helpful response:

We subscribe to DISH and have been unhappy with their bureaucratic and
messy customer service. Their staff seem to turn over daily, they're
expensive, and we've had much difficulty getting the programming we
want. For example, we were sold "commercial" packages which included
no German-language programming. We tried to get a "residential"
account to get around this problem but that proved more trouble than
it was worth. Advice: call for their rates posing as a residential
customer, then call as yourself [i.e., a business or educational
institution] to find out how packages and prices differ or are
possibly inflated.

We recently started researching SCOLA's current streamed offerings,
and at that moment, learned that DISH is now offering "German TV" to
its commercial subscribers. But, they tell us, we need a "Super Dish"
to receive it. In short, lots of obstacles as well as, we suspect,
inflated costs.
I've seen negative feedback on DISH in this listserv and have heard it
from others.  You're welcome to call or e. me to discuss further.

Regina DeAngelo
Mgr, Language Technology Services
Center for Language Study
Yale University
203-432-8056
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Quoting Automatic digest processor <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> my colleges claims to be ready (finally!) to secure international
> television programming for us. This wish has been pending over 10
> years
> so I'm not holding my breath.
>
> What sorts of options are out there that y'all are happy with? We
> had
> Scola eons ago, it was too expensive for the benefit we had. Are
> there
> good satellite options? Cable probably won't do it (in Holland
> Michigan).
>
> Any suggestions / advice appreciated! I've scanned through the
> archives
> but haven't found quite what I'm looking for. Sorry if his is one
> of
> those old-news perennial questions ;-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lee Forester
>