EchoStar is distributing a white paper by a former Justice Department attorney arguing the deal could be approved because of efficiency gains. For example, satellite TV viewers could watch hundreds of new channels if EchoStar and DirecTV eliminated duplicate programming from their satellites. “If EchoStar and DirecTV can verify these procompetitive benefits and demonstrate that they are of a substantial magnitude, DOJ is likely to permit the merger,” writes Donald Russell, former head of the Justice Department’s telecommunications merger task force.

All service providers give you a free satellite TV system when you sign onto one of their extended programming service contracts, with the exception of DirecTV, which also gives you a free digital camera, along with a free Hughes satellite TV system. DirecTV doesnt charge you any extra for the free Sirius satellite radio programming, that you can get in your programming package when you join their family of TV viewers.

DirecTV doesnt charge you any fees for upgrading your programming package and your Hughes receiver, if you should choose to do so at any point. The list of things that sets DirecTV apart from all the other service providers in both cable and satellite programming just goes on and on, because DirecTV has set the new standard in the TV programming industry.

Isnt it nice when these to things fall together just right and you get a good deal that your friend or loved one is truly surprised and happy with and it shows when they make use of your gift time and time again in their day to day life? Or even better yet, when it turns out to be useful and appreciated by a family, or group of friends or loved ones?

If you read the promotional material that all the TV programming services put out for public consumption, they will all like you to believe that they are the number one choice for the viewing public. Their facts and statistics just dont reflect that though, in the way that the statistics on DirecTV do. J.D.Power and associates has recognized DirecTV for the last five years in a row, for their stellar record in overall customer satisfaction.

Thats still not all either, because if they want to have more than one TV connected to DirecTV satellite programming, they get enough Hughes receivers for up to four separate TVs at no extra cost. Now other friends and family members can share in the great DirecTV satellite TV programming that you have given them.

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