AT&T basically bailed on their network obligations in Connecticut and sold out to Frontier.
Directv is imploding and is trying to take Dish down with them.
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If our local experience with Frontier is typical, it does for many. When I lived closer to the center of town I could get 12Mbps from them, now at the edge of town even 3Mbps is a stretch. And pricing is no better than Mediacom for vastly slower speeds.
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They don't know TV that's for sure. The best thing that happened to cable companies around here was Frontier. They took over U-Verse and had no idea what to do with it. People jumped ship right away. Now in defense of AT&T, When SBC originally bought SNET, The Southern New England Telephone company, they inherited an outdated mess of a phone system. This is the main reason they wanted out. They didn't want to put the money needed into the system. Unfortunately they buyer Frontier, knew even less.
Verizon owns part...and ATT owns partA big moose.
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Reads like the DirecTV employees are not happy learning how to climb telephone poles and fix phones.
Business Insider: DirecTV employees say AT&T's handling of the merger bred dysfunction.
'End us now': DirecTV employees fear its death as AT&T gets ready to build off its giant WarnerMedia deal
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Business Insider: DirecTV employees say AT&T's handling of the merger bred dysfunction.
'End us now': DirecTV employees fear its death as AT&T gets ready to build off its giant WarnerMedia deal
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They usually do that to prepare for a major strike
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ATT owns part of Frontier ?
I didn't know that ....
Do they own them due to not paying on what they bought ?
I saw that earlier as well ...
Like Juan said, its so they are prepared in case of a strike ....
Which they don't do anything when a strike does happen anyways ...
If trouble piles up, the strike gets settled and its up to the repair guys to get them caught up ....
Yeah, I read this story this morning. It was behind a paywall but sometimes when you go to that page, it seems to let you read it. Odd.
Anyhow, it sounds like morale is pretty low among DTV employees. AT&T made some pretty dumb decisions after acquiring them and now it's very apparent that the upcoming WarnerMedia SVOD is their shiny new toy which they see as the future. Hopefully AT&T doesn't ruin HBO too.
Interesting that the story ends with a proposition that DTV and Dish's satellite TV businesses once again try to merge. I do think that will be attempted again at some point in the 2020s.
Where I live, AT&T has, and always has had better coverage.
Of course, to be fair, this is old Bell South Mobility territory, and they were the big carrier, before Cingular and AT&T.
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43,000 GB used? Did I read that right on my phone?Gotta say I don't really understand all the flack AT&T gets around here.
It's a great connection, only costs $80/month. I'm definitely getting my money's worth, too. From my last billing period:
They've certainly improved compared to the company they used to be. This is way better than what Spectrum offers here. 940 / 35 Mbps for $125 a month. Yikes.
If they kill DirecTV then that's a good thing, imo. Very unhappy with what DirecTV & Dish Network did to the satellite market in the United States. Their dirty tactics tried to kill off as many unscrambled signals as possible and encouraged the current overpriced TV pricing model that is sinking them today. Content providers would routinely scramble signals or hide publishing of how to watch their signals at the behest of these two. We could've seen European style free-to-air systems like Freeview evolve on the Ku band in the U.S. if it weren't for them.
DirecTV and Dish Network need to go down hard.
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I just don't think that makes sense anymore. Where is the savings going to come from? It would probably take a decade to move all the customers from Dish's system to Directv's and realize any savings, and by then satellite may not have enough of a customer base to remain viable as far as it making sense to continue building/launching replacement satellites.
I mean, they can do the usual merger stuff of saving some money by combining the billing and customer support functions over a few years, but that would be a big mess now that AT&T has just about fully integrated it into their own system.
I sure wouldn’t trade my HWSes for ANY DTV equipment. I’d watch/record my EHDs and go with FiOS.
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I was about to ask the same thing... 43 TB? Geez. That’s hard to do.
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There would be some operational efficiencies to be gained, plus greater negotiating power with the networks due to a larger subscriber base. But the real motivation for a merger would be to eliminate your only direct nationwide competitor so that you could raise your margins per subscriber. That, of course, is why the two weren't allowed to merge way back when but given how the business has changed -- there are now lots of direct and indirect video subscription competitors on the internet -- it's possible that the government would allow a merger in a few years if satellite subscriber numbers continue to plummet. That would obviously stink for consumers who have no other choice for pay TV than DTV and Dish. But that number is only ever going to decrease.
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