ATT doing away with satellite TV
Previously I posted that in five years most people will get television over the Internet. Today ATT announced that they intend to do away with Direct TV and satellite TV by 2020 And provide tv over th...
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Hank MI wrote:turbojimmy wrote:
The author took several soundbites and pieced them together to form a "story". There's too much invested in current satellite technology to abandon it by 2020. And wireless has not advanced to the point of being able to ubiquitously replace satellite. The day will come, yes, but not by 2020. AT&T and Verizon have both announced "5G" plans, but there are a lot of logistic hurdles to be solved. AT&T is not going to abandon the market they purchased through their acquisition of DirecTV until there is a replacement available that is suitable from a technological and price perspective. I don't see that happening by 2020.
I switched from AT&T Uverse back to Comcast earlier this year. AT&T price went up a lot. The only deal they had to offer was to switch to DirecTV. Our son had the same experience with them. Why push people off UVerse to DirecTV if you plan on eliminating it?
In our DFW suburban neighborhood AT&T is pushing their TV customers from Uverse to Direct TV because their fiber optic system does not have the bandwidth to support video. Their whole system needs to be updated to significantly increase bandwidth. So far no plans to do that. Also not sure how people that live in remote areas where there is no cell coverage are going to get TV. Guess they are out of luck or maybe it will be down to one satellite provider.
