Looks like AT&T is finally giving up on that turd.  It makes sense though.  They just purchased DirectTV and likely want all their video subscribers to switch to that.  Dropping video frees up internet bandwidth and allows them to better compete with Comcast speeds.  

 

My guess is this will more likely cause hoards more customers to drop tv subscriptions altogether and move to streaming and OTA.   Most people would also likely move to comcast before DirectTV.  Satellite TV is just a different beast.  

 

DirectTV is still interesting though because it's wireless and doesn't have the same technical issues wired television has.  It wouldn't surprise me if in the future satellite television is the only television service that doesn't stream through an internet connection.

 

Article:

http://deadline.com/2016/02/is-att-prepa...201703310/

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