This demonstrates pretty well why I like Dish Network so much. They announced today that they are freezing prices until 2009 for some of their most popular programming prices.
I’ve talked about Dish Network prices before and about how the price has gone up only slightly since I first signed up back in 1998.
The price freeze includes the DishDVR Advantage packages which start at $39.99 per month which makes it a pretty good time to sign up for Dish Network since you will know the price will not be going up for a year.
If you don’t have a DVR yet, it is a great time to get one.
As far as the competition goes, when DirecTV was asked about their pricing plans for 2008, the company said: “We are in the latter stages of evaluating price structure for 2008, but don’t currently have any plans to freeze prices this year.”
In their usual style, Comcast, when asked about their plans for pricing said the company will increase its video costs during this year by around 5 percent on average, although the average customer bill, including Internet and telephone, would rise by around 3.1 percent.
Since I’m a Comcast Internet customer (it’s my only choice for broadband Internet in my area!) I guess I can expect my bill to go up yet again. Gee, I’m shocked to hear that! Not really.
Cablevision and Verizon also have plans to raise prices.
If your tempted to jump on the bandwagon and sign up for Dish Network and get in on this price freeze, see my Dish Network Deals page for the best deal on Dish Network satellite TV service.
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