DirecTV (ATT) changing their policy?

lynndiwagon wrote:
Come on. You guys know why they added this because you've read posts where folks "give" a spare receiver to one of their relatives. It would be tempting for some to install a spare receiver in one of their "poor" relatives house. I have been taking my Genie receiver to my vacation house and my RV for many years without an internet connection or phone line connection. I really don't think they care as long as you pay your bill regularly and don't try to deceive them.

This is the reason. $5.00 a month receiver fee for a receiver in a friends or relatives house 1000 miles from your home is a great deal for them, not so good for Directv. The phone line/internet connection pretty much assures that the receivers are all located in the same location (And yes, you can still abuse them by sharing one account among your next door neighbors who are close enough to receive your wifi signal).
My guess is what they will do for RV customers is require you notify them you are traveling, identify the receivers in your RV, and they will deactivate all the other receivers on your account.
RVs are a tiny slice of their business. If losing all those customers is required to prevent people from abusing the system it might be a cost they are willing to incur.