We top-up our mobile or mobile account but how about "dish TV"?

[tufguy]

We top-up our mobile or mobile account but how about "dish TV"?

In India you do have the facility to get your dish TV topped-up (prepaid). Can we say "We get our dish TV topped-up " or "We get dish TV topped-up for the deactivated (the channels that we used not to watch but now want to watch) channels as well."

 

[Tarheel]

I wouldn't use "deactivated" there. Perhaps: We get dish TV for the channels we didn't use to watch but now want to watch."

Also: "We get our dish TV topped up" looks good to me.

 

[GoesStation]

Note that the phrasal verb to top up doesn't take a hyphen. The compound noun top-up does. Such nouns rapidly evolve into complete words, though, and I think a topup will become common if it isn't already. The forum editor's spell-checker doesn't like it.

 

[tufguy]

I wouldn't use "deactivated" there. Perhaps: We get dish TV for the channels we didn't use to watch but now want to watch."

Also: "We get our dish TV topped up" looks good to me.

I have topped up my dish TV for the channels I didn't use to watch but want to watch now. Is it correct?

 

[Tarheel]

That's almost exactly what I said. Of course I agree with you.

P.S. You don't need "have" there, but it's not wrong, in my opinion.

 

[SoothingDave]

It sounds to me like you upgraded your TV package. You have now paid for channels that you used to not have. That's an upgrade. Not a refill or a "top up."

 

[emsr2d2]

We don't use "dish TV" in the UK. It's usually cable TV or satellite TV.

 

[GoesStation]

And here in the States, Dish TV is a satellite TV company. Living out of reach of cable, I subscribe to it myself.

 

[teechar]

You might also want to use renew and subscription/bundle in such a context.