No card is stored after your original purchase, which is the mechanical reason nothing can auto-renew. It also means renewal is a moment you control: you are not hunting through a bank statement for a charge you forgot about, and you are not calling support to cancel something before it bills again for another term you did not want. The tradeoff is that you have to remember to actually renew before your term ends if you want the service to continue without a gap. Set your own reminder a few days ahead of your term's end date, since there is no automatic notice sent when a manually-renewed service is about to lapse the way a recurring billing system would warn you.

Treat renewal like a mini version of the original buying decision. Pull up whatever notes you kept on buffering during live sport, since that is the moment most people judge and drop a service. Check whether a channel group that failed before still fails, using the switch-away-and-back test: if the picture recovers when you leave the channel and return, the session stalled rather than your line, and that is a fixable, less serious pattern than a channel that never recovers. Also check whether the fault was scoped to one channel, one whole group, or everything at once, since those point to three different causes and only one of them is something a device setting can fix. If the same broad pattern shows up again right before renewal, that is worth asking the provider about directly rather than assuming it will resolve on its own.

The confirmed pricing here is $10 a month on the 12-month plan, for $120 total, with a $5/24h trial priced separately from any full-term purchase. There is no stated loyalty discount for renewing versus buying fresh, since the 12-month rate is already the lowest per-month price on offer to new and returning buyers alike. If another provider ever offers a renewal rate that looks far below their own new-customer price, treat that as worth double-checking rather than assuming it is simply a reward for staying, since an unusually steep discount is sometimes a sign of the same trust problems that show up at initial signup.