How does a satellite account get verified?
Not exactly keeping me awake at night, but I am curious about how a satellite provider (DISH, Sirius, etc.) validates that a legal device is connecting and determines what services are available to th...
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The satellite companies don't "verify" that your device is able to accept the programming for your account, whether radio or TV. The data packets sent down from the satellites have the radio ID or TV box card numbers encoded in the packets and will only work on devices with those ID numbers. the TV box card must match with the receiver ID number on file in order for them to decode the data packets and convert them to video and audio. If everything does not match properly, the data packets are not decoded. No verification process going on by the satellite companies, it's a matter of matching the correct data. Chuck
