...needs a credit card? yeah. idk ...jus tryan find out for my momma dukes =)

With dish you do not need a credit card but they will check your credit. If you have bad credit, they will ask for a deposit before they do the installation. The best deal from my experience is from DISH network. They are cheaper than DirecTV and they do much better installations because they use actual hourly paid employees. DirecTV uses contractors that get paid by the job so they try to get out of there as soon as possible and do bad work a lot of the time.