Awful transaction and timing: AT&T finally ditches DirecTV//arstechnica.com //
AT&T’s massive customer losses
DirecTV’s value rapidly declined under AT&T’s stewardship, as the company reported a $15.5 billion impairment charge in January 2021. AT&T last month said the DirecTV/TPG deal will lower AT&T’s expected revenue for the remainder of 2021 by $9 billion.Aug 3, 2021
Direct was pretty good until 2004, then they started cutting corners. By the time I subscribed to them after moving about five years ago, nothing worked, not “On demand, not the DVR, nothing. We asked to go down to their minimum tier. They cut off all programming and gave us only infomercial channels. When we could finally escape, we had to scream at them for two hours. Both they and Dish are complete trash.