Tips and Tricks

Whether you are signing up for a pay-TV contract or booking a cable connection, these seven tips will help you deal with typical contracts.


Tips and Tricks


Free trial subscriptions for Pay TV or other premium services: You have to cancel such free-updates yourself, otherwise they will change into regular subscriptions with run-time at most providers. When you're done, do not forget to cancel it immediately.


Deny data transfer: Read the contract draft and the data protection guidelines of the provider exactly, in which case he / she passes on which personal data of his / her customers to whom. You may at any time object to the transmission of data for information and advertising purposes. It is best to not give this consent at all.


Hidden costs: If you have several offers to choose from, then search for all obvious and hidden costs and add them up once. One-time setup fees and equipment costs can make a cheap monthly subscription much more expensive.


Observe the notice periods: The cable or telephone contracts do not run according to the calendar year, but after the date of the contract or the connection. The operator should indicate in his contract confirmation and invoices when the contract begins to run. However, whether the notice period is two months, six or four weeks at the end of the term, you need to remember.


Contract renewal on change: In most cases, you can change your cable or telephone contract at any time in the normal runtime, if you book options. Often this is a special cancellation with a new contract. Then a new minimum contract term begins. Ask for changes when and how the new runtime starts.


Getting to the move when moving: Those who book a cable connection nowadays usually bind the provider for at least one year. However, if you move into an apartment that is not supplied by your cable operator, you can terminate the contract.


Buy or rent the reception box? It depends on. In the case of cable network operators, it is often possible to use hard disk receivers with a CI slot and a decryption module as well as the AlphaCrypt in addition to the officially certified receivers.


Such devices are usually much more flexible and justify the purchase. Many smaller TV retailers also like to help with the programming of the decryption module.


If you want to get your receiver from the operator, the rides with the rental offers often cheaper. And then there are new, more powerful devices anyway.