SiriusXM called me yesterday about my recent car purchase. They offered six months of Music & Entertainment for ~$30.
I told them I'd consider my options when my Platinum subscription expires. It seems to me that I should be able to get two radios for significantly less than twice the price...
I don't read it that way. I see the bond payment money as being a non-refundable deposit just as with the previous merger attempt where DISH was charged a substantial "back-out" fee for not completing the acquisition of DIRECTV.
I don't think Amazon does discount bundles. It appears that their add-on streaming products are offered at MSRP.
IIRC, Amazon currently offers Earthlink at MSRP.
This past Summer, DIRECTV was losing well over 5,000 subscribers per day. DISH DBS is losing about 1,028 per day.
DIRECTV seems to be handily winning the race to the bottom but that depends on where the break-even point is for each company.
DIRECTV is perhaps on a quicker pace towards the bottom than DISH. To the survivor go any spoils and I'm thinking nobody is seeking Ka band capacity divvied up the way DIRECTV has done it.
My question wasn't about availability but being able to get a reasonable price. I get a charge out of Tesla pricing by the minute rather than the kWh.
Fortunately for those in my area (the Pacific Northwet), we have relatively cheap hydroelectric power but other areas aren't so fortunate.
Don't confuse stockholders with bondholders. The dust-up has been with the bond holders.
After the deal is cast in stone, the stockholders will vote and however that comes out is how it will be for all stockholders.
Unless programming is removed from DIRECTV STREAM to disadvantage it with respect to DvI, I doubt anyone should be considering DIRECTV via Internet. DIRECTV didn't make DvI their most promoted package (while making DIRECTV STREAM relatively hard to find) because it was going to give customers...