--- Forwarded Message from "Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: #9348.1 (!) Dish Network issues >Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:29:55 -0500 >Thread-Index: AcqvHd7H6WwgasaxSLGyhC9DLQriUgADoFKw Amen to "their billing and accounting is a mess". And they don't understand how the billing machinery at universities work either. After battling with Dish for years, we recently worked out an arrangement with our university IT system. The university IT system was providing cable TV via Dish Network to the residence halls, and many other departments on campus. And they offered to interface with Dish and provide our center with the international channels we want. We opted for that. So our center doesn't have the HEADACHE of dealing with Dish directly anymore. Someone called Dish the cable TV mafia and there is a lot of truth to that. ******************************************** Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan Director Foreign Language Technology Center Wayne State University 385 Alex Manoogian Hall 906 W. Warren Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: 313-577-6391 Fax: 313-577-3041 http://www.langlab.wayne.edu ******************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LLTI-Editor Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:36 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: #9348.1 (!) Dish Network issues --- Forwarded Message from Margo Burns <[log in to unmask]> --- >User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.23.0.091001 >Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:01:41 -0500 >Subject: Re: #9348 Dish Network issues >From: Margo Burns <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Thread-Topic: #9348 Dish Network issues >Thread-Index: AcquYItDUh1QD9OuQDKbfp1PkDF/Vw== >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> On 2/15/10 10:15 AM, "Graul, Leslie B." <[log in to unmask]> wrote-- > Has anyone else received a letter stating that DISH Network will be > transitioning all International subscriptions to a monthly billing > cycle? What a nuisance this will be. As it is, I have had to change our > subscriptions away monthly billing each of the last two years, and > numerous times before that. > > The letter states that this is in order to "simplify our package > offerings and keep our industry leading prices low." I don't think > that it will work that way, in the long run. > > Perhaps we could protest as a group or something. Yes, I got one, too. DISH network had totally strewed up our account last year and started billing some monthly, even though we had paid ahead the whole year. It took me HOURS on the phone talking with a LOT of people there. They will be getting another phone call from me about this. From what I grasped in spending so many calls and hours, their billing system is awful and doesn't allow for a variety of ordinary functions. They will likely say that one can pay AHEAD if they want to, but I would need a BILL for that amount before my business office would pay that... Their billing and accounting is a mess. Cheers, Margo -- Margo Burns Director of the Language Center St. Paul's School 603-229-4665 (portable phone) 603-229-4666 voicemail *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************