I just found this out and I think it's ridiculous. We want to add a genie mini to another room and on top of paying $100 for the mini and an additional $8 a month to lease the mini, they require a full 2 year contract extension.

Apparently the same holds true if you have a set top box fail, 2 year extension to have it replaced.

Has anyone else here dealt with this and do you have any advice... other than switching to streaming. Our constant 2Mbps doesn't support streaming very well and OTA doesn't provide the programming. Dish would be the only other option and I'm not sure if it's any better.