Terrible company to work with. We already have a dish on our roof from previous tenants and the first time the installer came out, he said he wasn't certified to access the roof. Odd, since I imagine this is where a lot of dishes get installed. He advised me DirecTV would send someone else out with roof access. Soonest next installation was two weeks later (they were unable to expedite anything). He left a note in our file stating our dish is a multi-unit receiver (it's not, and he never looked at it). So a second installer comes two weeks later and says OSHA does not allow them to access roofs at all and whoever told me they might be able to "was lying". Every other dish in my community is mounted on a roof so this doesn't make sense. So she left, noting in our file that we did not h e a direct line of site to the southern sky (mind you, we already have the dish on our roof and it has perfect line of sight) and the soonest third installation appointment was a week and a half later. I called DirecTV in the meantime to at least ask if I could avoid the two year contract since clearly these people don't know what they're doing and I didn't want to get stuck with two years of bad service and the service rep said he would be happy to cancel my service but couldn't modify the bill. Never heard of a customer service rep helping you cancel service before trying to fix your problem. Then he tried to cancel my service at my request but realized he couldn't because somehow I had ordered it through AT&T even though I wasn't bundling services, so I would have to call someone else. He was laughing on the phone about how ridiculous this was. Anyway, the third tech came out today. This tech was quite nice and knowledgeable but said I had ordered four wired boxes when I had actually ordered wireless Genie boxes with one wired receiver. He was unable to reach his supervisor initially and then informed me it would be an additional $99 to set up a wireless video bridge, despite all advertisements saying installation was free. I called DirecTV myself and spoke with a supervisor named Eddie and expressed my frustration at having wasted 3 half days waiting for installation and now being hit with a $99 hidden fee. He advised me it was a setup fee and that installation was still free (really!?!!) and that he could not adjust my bill in any way. Overall, very poor communication among different parts of the company, abysmal customer service, and higher prices than competitors. I would not recommend DirecTV to anyone. Even Comcast is better. read more