Info for your understanding, cignaltv activation is not like directv or dish or any local DTH.
Postpaid activation is 3-5 days, best case is 1 day after cignal activation team received all your submitted docs and forms, that would be a day after the installation since docs will be forwarded by dealer installer to cignal activation. It is the fault of dealer installer of not informing you on the process of activation.
Prepaid activation is done by TP or distributor, that is why it is faster. It takes encoding subscriber details, stb,sc,lnb and other stuff and voila. It will be activated in just 15min.
Dont get me wrong lonewolf, some un authorized dealers installers uses old "pre activated" boxes. That is the reason why they say it works even before they left, that is because it is already active and without load. What the installer does is load the amount on the said account to get it working again. To make sure you have a bnew fresh unit, your unit should be in your name and address. Worst case of this pre activated units is out of warranty units that cignal does not honor but being honored by the installer from their stock,thatis in house warranty.
GET YOUR CIGNALTV THRU WWW.CIGNAL.TV ONLINE APPLICATION!
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