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timmac
Explorer
Mar 17, 2019

Satellite TV is Dead, Direct TV just lost 267,000 customers

I made a prediction on January 2019 that satellite TV will be gone in 2 years, looks like I might be right.. Direct TV just lost 267,000 customers in 3 months and the CEO wants to still raise price...
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pnichols
Explorer II
Mar 23, 2019
FWIW, here's satellite Internet service - 50 GB/month data at 25 Mbps download speed (click on "50 GB" to see this plan). This download speed can handle about 5 HD resolution streams at once, or 1 to 2 4K resolution streams at once (I don't think satellite latency affects steady-state movie streaming): https://www.hughesnet.com/get-started

So ... satellite Internet access is indeed "here" (except for maybe gaming use).

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