What is the purpose of connecting my receiver to my telephone line?
With this phone connection, DIRECTV customers are authorized to order Pay Per View movies and events with their remote control and get popular sports subscriptions such as NFL SUNDAY TICKET™. You cannot connect a cellular phone to your receiver; it must be a land-based phone line. Customers who don’t have a continuous telephone connection are not authorized to receive certain sports programming and must call us to order Pay Per View. To cover the cost of handling phone requests, there is an additional $1.50 charge when Pay Per View events and movies are ordered by phone using the automated ordering system or an additional $5 charge for an operator-assisted order.
DIRECTV asks customers to connect the receiver to a land-based phone line for sports programming viewing and pay per view ordering purposes. This connection sends information from the receiver to their computer system. You cannot connect a cellular phone to your receiver; it must be a land-based phone line. With this phone connection, DIRECTV customers are authorized to order pay per view movies and events with their remote control, get popular sports subscriptions like NFL SUNDAY TICKET, and have the programming subscription on their main receiver “mirrored” to other receivers that are connected to the same phone line. Customers who don’t have a continuous telephone connection are not authorized to receive certain sports programming, can order pay per view online, in their phone system or with a representative, and must pay a separate subscription price for each receiver. There is an additional $1.50 charge when pay per view events and movies are ordered by phone utilizing the automat
We ask customers to connect the receiver to a land-based phone line for billing and pay per view ordering purposes. This connection sends purchase information from the receiver to our computer system. You cannot connect a cellular phone to your receiver; it must be a land-based phone line. With this phone connection, DIRECTV customers are authorized to order pay per view movies and events with their remote control, get popular sports subscriptions like NFL SUNDAY TICKET., and have the programming subscription on their main receiver “mirrored” to other receivers that are connected to the same phone line. Customers who don’t have a continuous telephone connection are not authorized to receive certain sports programming, must call us to order pay per view, and must pay a separate subscription price for each receiver. To cover the costs of handling phone requests, we apply a $5 service charge on phone orders for pay per view movies and events.
