How AT&T intends to tap dance around the DTV/uVerse dilemma isn't clear. Knowing AT&T fairly well, there's going to be more than a few creative caveats designed to force customers to more expensive options, What is clear is the company is throwing everything it has at this streaming plan, announcing this week the acquisition of over the top and "TV Everywhere" company Quickplay Media, which was already powering AT&T's own U-verse TV Everywhere offering, which is pretty much a dead proposition, and subscribers will be forced to DTV eventually. DirectTV offers NOTHING that today consumer wants,charges far too much money, and does not have on demand or commercial free programming. DirectTV is doomed, and AT&T is doomed also, like any Wall Street gamble, They've given up on land lines, and their reign of terror over wireless won't last much longer.
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If DTV has nothing customers want (btw there is free on demand programming and the like, do your homework!), it's still a better product than the disasterous Uverse product. Before I ever worked for the company, I tried the Uverse offering: overpriced, hardly any sports available for good price, and unreliable. I RAN back to DTV paying to break my ridiculous contract with AT&T gladly. If the Uverse product is improved and AT&T can actually maintain the lower pricing DTV pays programmers to expand their programming offerings, then maybe I can see it's a viable option. Until then, keep the crap Uverse. I'll stick with my DTV and will pay more purely for the quality and reliability. They can come pry that dish off my roof when it's time to sunset satellite tv.
With ATT buying directv that allows them to reach every potential customer (looking for broadcast TV)in the US. They are also going after the cord cutters and people that can not get satellite service, like north facing apartments or houses that have landlord restrictions. With the Internet speed needed to have reliably 1080i resolution live streams you would really only see the TV anywhere working in major city's or just large city's with fiber Internet. But because they also have the satellite infrastructure they can still reach rural areas as well for television.
I've been an AT&T employee for 17+ years. I was laid off effectively Aug 5th 2016. What I want to know is.... How many have been laid off in 2016 to date?
I know there's a number, but no cummulitiv data available thru Google or any other source I've found. I think the number is far greater than the public realizes. Thousands??
If U-Verse is dying, why is Gigapower being built? Gigapower is just the next generation of U-Verse, which is why it's all "AT&T Internet" now.
Exactly right. Then there is cord cutters that are not moving toward DTV. This $48B investment will take AT&T straimght down. Now, AT&T us marketing DTV purchase as investment into content not infrastructure. Nice spin but makes AT&T look dumber.
Yawn...