Started seeing rumblings about something going on at Dish a few days ago and as of today, things aren’t looking any better. Visiting their site http://dish.com leads to a message

We are experiencing a system issue that our teams are working hard to resolve. For help with common issues, please select the Customer Support option below to see our FAQs and Troubleshooting guides. So that we may assist you with New DISH service, please request more information below.

Purportedly, no one is able to pay thier bill, cancel, or subscribe service. Employees are being told not to connect to the VPN. Interesting commments on the following Reddit threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dishnetwork/comments/119z4tz/dish_outage/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/11au5vr/dish_network_outage/