PhoneArena - News - Friday, September 20, 2019 at 4:34 AM
AT&T may drop DirecTV as satellite TV becomes irrelevant
AT&T recently started the rebranding of
DirecTV<https://www.phonearena.com/news/ATT-rebrands-DirecTV-Now-app-ATT-TV-Now_id118192>,
but the service might end up in the cemetery of the obsolete products after
all. Sources familiar with the matter claim AT&T is looking to offload its
DirecTV unit as satellite TV becomes irrelevant for the US market, The Wall
Street
Journal<https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-t-explores-parting-ways-with-directv-11568841544>
reports.Apparently, the carrier is searching for options that would allow it
to salvage parts of the service. One of these options includes “a spin-off of
DirecTV into a separate public company and a combination of DirecTV assets with
Dish Network Corp, despite previous statements that a merging between the two
is highly unlikely “from a regulatory perspective.”
The decision to shelve DirecTV, recently rebranded as AT&T TV Now may have been
influenced by the terrible results reports earlier this year that confirm
AT&T's TV services lost nearly 1 million subscribers just in Q1 2019.
From a consumer perspective, the disappearance of the DirecTV service won't be
a major loss since AT&T offers a couple of alternatives that offer better
experiences for similar or lower prices, including HBO
Max<https://www.phonearena.com/news/HBO-Max-release-price-TV-shows-movies-original-streaming-content-vs-Netflix-Apple-TV_id117391>
and Watch TV.
AT&T hasn't made any comments regarding the recent report from WSJ, probably
because no decision has been made yet, but we'll keep you up to date if
anything major happens.
https://www.phonearena.com/news/AT-T-may-drop-DirecTV-as-satellite-TV-becomes-irrelevant_id119099
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