Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

They will have to make some move to either absorb or shed DTV given the paring down of resources in the last year

They will have to make some move to either absorb or shed DTV given the paring down of resources in the last year.

Just in the last few months, they have announced no replacements for the two aging satellites due to be decommissioned later this year.

We have been cut back from as many as 8 different types of LNB (little electronic gizmo on the end of the dish arm) to now we only are allowed to have 2 types. We just last week turned in all standalone HD boxes, SD boxes and multiswitches used in commercial and high density or multiple receiver settings.

Bit by bit, our ability to field-engineer a system for specific clients has been eliminated - it's now Genie or nothing - as if this one size fits all - it doesn't. Heck, it barely works most days with the myriad of software bugs that infest the whole Genie and Genie 2 system.

Not a day goes by that I don't run into former customers of mine who had DTV for decades now telling me they cancelled their service because of how bad their service has become.

How can this company think that the current DTV customers who are becoming VERY aware that our level of service has severely degraded in the past couple of years are going to turn around in 2020 and say "why, yes, I'll buy your streaming product".

Illusions and delusions - too much high heat in Dallas has cooked a few brains.

Reposted from @Y0mSDxA-1xab , for being on-point

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Long term plans to eliminate satellite, and move everyone to streaming service. One method to do that is make it c-ap and hope they move to your service. Kinda like what they did when they wanted everyone to move from GSM to UMTS,,, just quit managing the GSM network.

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Post ID: @khl+Y1aW5E8

John Donovan told investors last fall that AT&T would not be launching any more satellites for DIRECTV. Google it on the news section. Interesting stuff.

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