Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

To bust the unions

Fiber and wireless are the Future. Dtv is a dinosaur that nobody wants 📡

at&t ignored a small detail:

Millennials don't pay $146 cable bills.........the entire generation will never sign up for DTV. They binge watch Netflix, Hulu and pay only for channels they want.

DTV is an expensive joke, With all the extra DTV point of distribution they cannot move the needle.

How many people lost their job for this idiotic purchase?

AT&T is just trying to rack up as many subs as possible and they are going to jack ad revenue. Randy came out and said he plans on raising the cost of advertisements from 8$ per viewing head, to 32$ a viewing head.... that's the end game.

AT no just taking advantage of the training provided and well aware of company strategy.

AT yes, satellite dish at the home. Not the actual technology.

Streaming TV will have much more competition going forward and Directv Now has had multiple problems; of course it will have competition but T has the network and content to compete. DTV Now is only 6 months in and has better content than the other options. Major updates coming.

Satellite TV is much more than satellites in the sky. Multiple broadcast centers, uplink facilities, local collection facilities are needed to operate Directv. ; duh what do you think the Time Warner purchase provides.

Pay-TV just had it's worst Q-1 subscriber loss ever; easy fix once 5g is in place with exclusive pricing and bundles provided.

Continued subscriber losses over next few years will not justify high operating cost of satellite tv; Software Defined Networks will bring operating cost down significantly over the next few yrs.

1. AT&T employees = Brainwashed by upper management

2. AT&T has already said that streaming will replace satellite TV by 2020

3. Streaming TV will have much more competition going forward and Directv Now has had multiple problems

4. Satellite TV is much more than satellites in the sky. Multiple broadcast centers, uplink facilities, local collection facilities are needed to operate Directv.

5. Pay-TV just had it's worst Q-1 subscriber loss ever

6. Continued subscriber losses over next few years will not justify high operating cost of satellite tv

1. DIRECTV is a GLOBAL service. (Global content and BIg Data on a Global Scale ex: Netflix Youtube)

2. Satellite Technology is not going away; it's becoming more cost effective than ever before especially once Rockets are able to be used for multiple launches and returns.

3. Combining Wireless, Broadband and Satellite Technology provides an all around network that will benefit I.O.T and FirstNet.

4. Content on any screen - mobile, cars, plane, train, boat etc...Uverse technology was not going to provide that scale. DTV and ATT needed each other to compete with Google, Amazon, Facebook etc.

Anyone who feels DTV and Satellite is a sinking ship is just not paying attention. What will go away is the actual Satellite Dish needed at the home. 5g will replace that.

FTTP U-verse is number #1. What s---s though is all development is going into DIRECTV for now. The only hope is some hybrid IPTV product with 4K when they finish combining video distribution systems on the backend and have a DVR that can handle satellite and IPTV.

Uverse was a good service, the T wouldn't spend the money to replace the 1950 lead cable in the older areas. So of corse it had problems there. In the newer copper areas we didnt have the issues. Uverse menus end navigation screens were much better than DirecTV has a slow Interface menu with extremely slow channel changing! My U-verse TV with fiber to the prem works awesome none of the weather related problems with direct and no ugly dish and external coax running everywhere.....ugly

To continue the rollup in the wake of the failed T-Mobile merger. The same reason they are going after Time-Warner. The only way to get higher multiples is to acquire because the organic growth rate isn't possible for products that are mature in their life cycle. The worst part of it is the gigantic debt load that will be one the balance sheet and the future cash flow encumbered to pay for the debt and interest payments.

Yeah trust me if U-verse could have gotten enough market penetration DIRECTV would have never happened. But U-verse only topped out at about 6.5 million subscribers at its peak so they needed DIRECTV for good content pricing.

Att bought DIRECTV for it's licence deals and already established customer base. The way it's going with streaming att wanted to boost its Netflix attempt in full screen. It's also the reason they want time warner, they need that content that it has like hbo and such.

It's all about content. Not the actual system,

The globe bought the satellite because Uverse s---ed horribly and barely had a subscriber base. DIRECTV was the largest pay tv company, with the highest ratings for quality, customer service, and product. While the numbers for subscriber tv may decline, they aren't going away. The tech may move from satellite, but more likely ATT will re-purpose the existing satellites for another function.

In short, ATT bought DIRECTV for the subscribers, immediate access to homes and customers, and an infrastructure that very well can be modified for future use.

The sad thing is that it was DIRECTV that lost in this deal, not ATT

You have to be kidding right? Satellite TV is going away. Have you been looking at the numbers? Way to expensive to operate satellite with people going to other alternatives for TV. The number of subscribers in a few years will not support the cost to operate satellite TV. Old expensive technology .

Are you kidding? DIRECTV allowed the company to get into so many areas they wouldn't have been allowed by uverse. It is growing the business at a steady rate and evolving with the time. Satellite dishes may go away, but that's going to grow it even more.