hey MikeD1535 ive been a tech with this god forsaken company for 6 years and can confirm with 100% certainty that connecting a phone line to a reciever does not give the ability to monitor conversations. the truth behind the phone lines is just another way for dish to milk every customer for every dollar they can. if your reciever is connected to a phone line more people would be inclined to order a ppv in turn generating more revenue for dish. aswell as to monitor the recievers location via the phone number it dials out from, so that they know you are not sharing recievers with your neighbors or something.
and as far as the true colors of dish that IronMaverickX speeks of its literally just the tip of an ever growing iceberg, through out the entire company.
but not to defend dish in anyway, most major companies of dish's size are becoming like this. its unfortunate that corps have lost touch with what truly matters, the customer and thier customer facing employees. happy employees are good employees and it will show in cust relations. but unfortunealty dish really doesnt give a ### point blank.
mr charley ergen the companies founder and ceo cares about one thing and one thing only HIS OWN POCKET BOOK.
