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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaulR" data-source="post: 776190" data-attributes="member: 176256">NO, NO, NO, the card is NOT paired, it is only activated.You put it any working, connected box for it to be activated.  That might be why you thought you didn't have to bring your own box with you.  If you didn't have access to a box in the UK then it would have made life easier for yourself if you had brought one with you.As I said ages ago, if you use a box with a current subscription card normally inserted then, after you had activated your FFS card then you might have to get the subscription card re-paired.  But that is only a matter of making another phone call after the FFS card has been activated.As you suggest, buying another box while you're here is another answer.  You have to disconnect your parents box from the satellite dish while your card updates but their card will remain paired to their box.</blockquote>