You will pick one of these plans before your account can be setup for installation. Installation take about 2-3 hours and is usually available in just a few days. You will select a date and time of day, as your account is built, here at Discovery AV.
Email billing is automatically sent a few days before your credit/debit card is debited for the next months service plan. You can change your credit source anytime, using your ViaSat application on computer, phone or tablet.
After the 90 day period your rate will go up (see bottom of chart just below the discounted price) .
After the 90 day promo, you may choose any plan in the chart or just leave it as it was originally stated., use it as long as you like, and upgrade or downgrade the plan for as long as you like.
Your new plan (if selected or changed) is billed on for the pro-rata amount of time used until your billing period renews each month. Use a more expensive rate for only 10 days?, and you only pay for those 10 days at the new given rate. \This allows you to try out the better TV streaming resolution for a large screen TV
The GOLD plan offers the 720p resolution (as cable or satellite TV clarity=resolution).
The PLATINUM plan is 1080p or blu-ray dvd quality, the current state of the art.- 4K or 8K TV's will upconvert signals within the TV set itself, providing the 4K 8K resolution. There is very little 4K source material at 4K native resolution.
There are no 'fees' to upgrade downgrade your performance plan, nor phone calls to make, The switch is immediate and electronic. [You'll pay the pro-rata share of old + new plan for time used]
The ViaSat application for Android or iPhone, will prompt you to build your account with your account number and email info. Once created, you may use the app to: change your data plan, see how much data you have consumed month to date, and other functions.
Unlimited data, means no data 'cap' for a given plan, unless the system is over-burdened, in which case your plan may be throttled behind plans above your plan level, and give them priority during highest congested traffic times of day.