AT&T finishes offloading DirecTV
The close of the $7.6 billion deal, originally announced last September, frees AT&T from a legacy media business that has lost significant value in recent years.
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2025/07/02/at-t-finishes-offloading-directv.html
But DIRECTV stream will still be PUSHED on customers! It still remains in COR Retail!
@b7 That was exactly my thought when Randall announced buying DTV in a Townhall. He gave the reason as needing a boost in TV subscriber counts to get better rates from the networks as, I think he said at the time that U-Verse only had 8M subs, and DTV had 25M? Something like that. And I immediately thought, 'Why not just develop an app for U-Verse that could be used on mobile devices, as Mobility had ~100M subs then? BAMM - there's your sub count!" Why spend $65M when you could just get an app developed? They ended up doing that anyway didn't they - HBO Go or something? I don't really follow TV/cable, I cut the cord in 2010 and never missed it...
I wonder how long until they kick us out of the DTV Stream beta testing group.
“ Buy (very, very) High, sell (very, very) Low!”
…and often!
we had plenty of subscribers with Uverse tv we had no reason to buy this bloated company that was already on the downslide!!!
DU&&A$$ ratty was a kid with lots of money from his daddy Big Ed Whitacre, at least under Ed we became biggest telecom when he bought pac bell and southern bell, he didn't buy just because.
Now all of a sudden we want to go back to our roots as a telecom connecting everyone together!!
Had we put those Billions we lost on Dtv into fiber expansion we would rule the world!!!
Why the fu-k are we still selling this deceased product in our stores when we don’t own it?
I thought when AT&T bought DirecTV it meant we were going to get into the satellite business. That would have been the future thinking choice that would be paying off today and in the future.
Actually, it goes like this:
Buy (very, very) High, sell (very, very) Low!