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I'm thinking of cancelling my ExpressVu service at my cottage. I have already brought the receiver home and wonder how bell can terminate the connection without the receiver hooked-up. Am I missing something?........Great site and thank-you in advance
 
They disable the cards 'serial number' in the stream. When you go to use it it tries to validate the number, cannot do it, and says No Worky!
 
Thats not entirely true,, if he unhooks the receiver from the dish,, calls bell, cancels the service,, and oh waits like 48 hours,, the longer the better apparently,, but he can hook it back up and it will work. For how long, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week... until bev sends a hit to all the receivers to make sure the ones with valid subs are working,, anything just gets shutdown.. but this is grayish subject,, probably legal issues are alarming now...
 
It will take 30 days after the period you last paid for to cancel your service. So hook it up your good to sometime in July. :(
 
Typically one just has a dish lined up at their cottage and just bring a receiver from home or have one at the cottage on the same account as their home.
 
While it may indeed be typical, it is against your customer agreement to do so. Your agreement states that you can have operational equipment at one location. I don't want to get into this subject as it has been covered to death already, but the short version is that you are supposed to call and deactivate your home service while using the cottage service and then call to reverese when you get home.

I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, nor am I condoning it, just pointing it out.

As for the disconnection information posted above, a bit of clarification.......

The receiver does not have to be hooked up when the termination signal is sent to remove your programming for that unit becuase the programming will expire on its own anyway. Authorization to view a set of channels that you subscribe to is sent down to your smartcard on a regular basis that authorizes the system for a short period of time (2-4 weeks). These programming "tiers" will automatically expire unless replaced with an update during that window.

Many years ago it was possible to unhook your equipment, cancel your service, wait a month while the disconnect/termination of service signal was sent via satellite, then hook everythign back up and watch "free" tv, sometimes for a year or more. With the change over to the new system (implemented along with the last card swap to N2 cards) this is no longer possible. At best, you may get a week or two.
 
It's the same sort of thing with the company "whose name we dont mention." You can upgrade your programming, unplug the receiver, then downgrade, plug it back in and you'll get what you had before the downgrade. Until of course the programming keys expire and need to be updated, 48 - 72 hours.
 
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