Pay As You Go with Dish Outdoors
Dave SolbergMost RV satellite providers require you to sign a two-year contract if you’d like cable and streaming capabilities on your rig. This can be restricting for the majority of RVers, especially those who might not be on the road that often. For those who travel sporadically and want to have the ability to access weather coverage, sports, and other entertainment while on the move, choices have been fairly limited in the past. You probably don’t want to pay for something you’re not using all the time, but you’d like to have the option for when you are out and about.
Thanks to customizable services provided by Dish, you can now adapt your plan according to your usage. In this quick video lesson RV expert Dave Solberg teaches you about the benefits of Dish Outdoors’ monthly payment plans.
How the pay-as-you service works
All you need to enjoy Dish Outdoors is a compatible antenna on your vehicle, and you can have TV almost anywhere you go. No WiFi needed, no credit checks, no disconnection or reinstatement fees. Just high-quality television on the move, whenever you want it.
One of the aspects of Dish’s pay-as-you-go package that Dave likes most is its responsive tech service, available around the clock. With your Dish app, you can log in to pay your bill, extend your plan if you’re expecting to be on the road for another month, change your programming preferences, and update your location so you can get local channels for precise weather, regional events, etc.
Best of all, you don’t need to have a home program setup with Dish to enjoy service on the road. But if you do have home cable with Dish, you can add RV services for an additional $5. However you travel, you can customize your plan to best suit your programming needs!
Hi, Dave Solberg, managing editor of the RV Repair Club. I've been a Dish customer on and off for several years. And I say that, because of the Dish Pay As You Go program. Now most of the time with the satellite provider, you have to do a two-year contract. And since I'm not full-timing I don't wanna pay for something I'm not using all the time, or I have to pay a disconnect fee, or a reinstatement fee.
With the Dish Pay As You Go, if you have a compatible antenna like this King, and this Winegard, you can customize the program for how you RV, one month at a time, two months at a time. No Wifi needed, no credit checks, and I really like the tech support, based in Minnesota, here in the United States, that I can call when I'm having issues with my system. With my Dish app I can log in and I can pay my account, extend my services, I can also change my programming and I can change my location, my service area. So I can get local channels wherever I'm at. So I can get TV, I can also get weather stations and local events.
I don't need to have a home program either, but if I do then for $5, I can add this to my RV. So the Pay As You Go program, it's customized, take it with you on the road.
This summer I was unable to receive my local channels. This was even after 3 calls to Dish tech support. My account was paid up. I am disappointed that I couldn't get what I was paying for. I have a dish playmaker antenna and a Wally receiver.