AT&T/Direct TV is Now Losing Over 8500 Customers Per Day

A Beginners Guide to Cord Cutting - How to Get Started

https://youtu.be/5RZM3XgiA1A

And you are happy about that? :h

BB_TX wrote:
And you are happy about that? :h

Just informing those before they spend $$ on new satellite dish/equipment for there RV..

Better spend the money on wifi equipment and such cause the Sat TV companies are going under fast...

timmac wrote:
2.3 million in the last year..

Also they are now going to offer streaming boxes and might dump the satellite dishes/equipment and forcing new customers to go streaming with AT&T.

The cost to pay the installers and the satellite equipment is becoming to costly.

https://youtu.be/vbGEXTrxXFc

Bye Bye Sat TV..... 18 Months and Counting... :B

That is actually the number of subscribers lost by all AT&T video services. That includes Directv Now, U-verse and well as standard Directv. Both Directv Now and U-verse are platforms that are not delivered by satellite. Directv Now is an internet platform and U-verse is wired. Both of those two platforms are much more impacted by alternative options. There are many internet video options and several options for video to be delivered by cabling. Satellite Television, not so much. I couldn't find a breakout for Directv satellite television only for the last quarter, but while subscriptions have been declining, they have not declined as fast as the other platforms. The most recent figures I found show around 16 million subscribers to the Satellite platform with approximately 90,000 subscribers lost in the 4nd quarter of 2018. That is a far cry from losing 2.3 million.

Based on previous posts by timmac it makes you wonder if he has a financial interest in streaming services. Or a personal grudge against satellite. Or both.

All the traditional tv providers are going through this. It is becoming a streaming world. Streaming is still cheaper than traditional service since they don’t have the infrastructure cost to get the signal to the consumer. It will be interesting to see how the streaming prices increase as they get more mainstream and the content providers start pushing the prices up. CBS, HBO, NFL etc are still going to need to get their money, and in the end it has to come out of the consumers pocket.

DirecTV & Dish are not going away. Satellite TV is the only TV service available for millions and millions of North Americans.

I ditched my satellite TV and land-line phone 10+ years ago.

I came to the conclusion that I didn't need 627.channels of video compost.


One thing that I do miss is spending my Saturday watching all of the different home improvement shows. What better to do on a Saturday than watching Dean Johnson remodel a bathroom?

Well.... My wife came up with a good answer to that question..... Since we cut the cord I have remodeled two houses including three down to the stud bathroom remodels.

Sometimes I miss Dean Johnson.....

Seriously, I don't think that todays market a new satellite TV provider would have an ice cubes chance in hell but the ones that have already invested in satellite and ground infrastructure may continue to function holding on to rural customers who still lack the broadband connectivity to take advantage of streaming. I live in a county where only about half of the population has access to cable or DSL Internet. There are still plenty of DirectTV customers here.

My $0.02....

In a few years the majority of our media and communication will come to us via some kind of IP connection. Depending on where we are it may be DSL, cable, fiber, cellular, WISP or satellite. Depending on what technology is available where you are.

timmac wrote:

BB_TX wrote:
And you are happy about that? :h

Just informing those before they spend $$ on new satellite dish/equipment for there RV..

Better spend the money on wifi equipment and such cause the Sat TV companies are going under fast...

All fine and dandy if you camp near a phone tower. We prefer to be out in nature, not stuck in some crowded RV or St park.

goducks10 wrote:

timmac wrote:

BB_TX wrote:
And you are happy about that? :h

Just informing those before they spend $$ on new satellite dish/equipment for there RV..

Better spend the money on wifi equipment and such cause the Sat TV companies are going under fast...

All fine and dandy if you camp near a phone tower. We prefer to be out in nature, not stuck in some crowded RV or St park.

X2

That's also one of the reasons I cut the cord over 5 years ago, no reason to pay for cable/satellite TV and get junk channels when I prefer the outdoors better..