Yeh because people are dumping cable TV. We cut off Direct TV mos ago and went to Netflix. Saving a ton of money.
The worst customer service we’ve ever dealt with I would throw the damn TV out the window and get something else
What they should get rid of is CNN.
Who writes this stuff? High Screwel Gradumacates?
The telecom giant has considered various options, including a spinoff of DirecTV into a separate public company and a combination of DirecTV’s assets with Dish Network Corp., its satellite-TV rival, the people said.
AT&T may ultimately decide to keep DirecTV in the fold. Despite the satellite service’s struggles, as consumers drop their TV connections, it still contributes a sizable volume of cash flow and customer accounts to its parent.
There could be regulatory hurdles to any deal with Dish, which has about 12 million subscribers. When Dish’s predecessor EchoStar Communications Corp. and DirecTV’s former owner Hughes Electronics Corp. tried to merge in 2001, regulators ultimately blocked it on antitrust grounds, worried that many rural Americans would be left with only a single option to get their television service. More recently, Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen held talks to combine with DirecTV in 2014, but lost out to AT&T.
“AT&T Now Exploring Selling It’s DirecTV Unit”
Wall Street Journal writers don’t know the difference between “it’s” and “its”? They must be hired right after fifth grade, because we covered this in sixth grade.
I quit cable and satellite years ago, not because of cost or customer service but because of content. I refuse to support CNN, MSNBC, the homosexual channels, etc.
Well Direct TV is the cheapest option I have, since it’s bundled in with my phone package. It it gets dropped, I’m dropping Direct TV.
After AT&T took over DirecTV they incrementally increased my monthly bill by over $100 per month. Then, when two of my HD boxes started acting up (they were the original HD design) AT&T told me I had to pay to have them replaced.
Right at that time Verizon finally dropped a FIOS line into my Cul De Sac and I was able to get more channels and better service while saving over $140 per month, so I told AT&T to pound sand. This was April of last year so I had been a DirecTV customer for exactly 18 years when I dumped them.
On top of saving a bunch of money I don’t lose my signal when it rains or snows.
AT&T sucks...
Yea, don’t offer good phone service or anything. Instead hook up with a loser tv company.
I shall NEVER go to Netflix.
I’d rather watch a test pattern.
DirectTV went downhill the first day after AT&T took over. I figured that they made harder to pay your bill so they could make more money on late fees.
Ever try to get anything done on AT&T’s website?
Good gravy, what a mess it is. Must have been designed by the Obola administration. Horribly slow and clunky, constant errors, constant forced password resets for no apparent reason. For such a large company that provides internet services, their website is beyond a joke - my cat could eat a page of code and hock up a better website inside a hairball.
Went w/ DirectTV b/c Comcast became unbearable. The satellite is fine, just a few outages during storms, not an issue.
What bugs me is I can’t access the DVR recordings from my Win computers — have to have an app on an iPhone or Android. Ridiculous.
Anyone know a solution — or if DISH allows DVR access? May have to go back to Comcast for it, sadly.
