Directv

We have no problem putting our service into suspension. Apparently, what they are trying to avoid is someone nickel and diming them over the few buck fees for individual receivers. I would imagine the customer service cost for agents to start and stop $5.00 individual receivers is a big money loser as well as a customer service bottleneck. I doubt most people have the all the necessary information (box serial number, access card ID etc) at their fingertips when they call. Tie up an agent for 15 or 20 minutes to stop a single box cannot be a business model they want. Make it next to impossible to do, and the problem goes away from their point of view. They aren't going to lose many customers when those customers consider the alternatives (get a different provider that is still compatible with an RV, return the boxes and wait for the new ones every time they want to activate those TVs or just pay the $5.00 fee a month and keep them all up and running).