Tag: AT&T
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AT&T Now Accepts BitPay Allowing AT&T Subscribers to Pay With Bitcoin
Ever wish you could pay your AT&T bill with Bitcoin? Now AT&T has announced a partnership with BitPay to allow AT&T subscribers to pay their bill with Bitcoin through BitPay. “We’re always looking for ways to improve and expand our services,” said Kevin McDorman, vice president, AT&T Communications Finance Business Operations. “We have customers who…
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Cord Cutting This Week #76 – Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, Hulu, fuboTV & More See Strong Growth
Join Cord Cutters News every Saturday as we take a look back at some of the biggest Cord Cutting Stories from the past week. Now, remember these are my opinions on them not an in-depth look at each story. If you would like to learn more about each story check out the links below. (Also…
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AT&T’s CEO Expects DIRECTV NOW & DIRECTV Losses to Increase in the Second Quarter of 2019
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson gave a talk about the current state of AT&T at a J.P. Morgan Conference. A lot of news was made about his announcement of a new “thin” version of DIRECTV and how AT&T is trying to get low revenue customers to cancel. One thing that slipped through the cracks was a…
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AT&T’s CEO Wants You To Cancel DIRECTV NOW & DIRECTV
DIRECTV NOW and DIRECTV have seen a huge drop in subscribers recently. Just in the 1st quarter of 2019, AT&T lost over 500,000 subscribers and AT&T is happy about that. That is not what I am saying but what AT&T’s CEO & President, Randall Stephenson said during a talk at the J.P. Morgan Conference earlier…
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AT&T Makes it Harder to Cancel Home Internet & Phone
Earlier this month Spectrum made it harder to cancel home internet. Now AT&T is doing the same as it has started to notify customers that they are changing their cancellation policy for internet customers. In the past if you canceled mid-month and did not have a contract you could get a refund for the rest…
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DIRECTV NOW Jumps Into VR With Magic Leap One
Today AT&T announced that it has brought DIRECTV NOW to the VR headset Magic Leap One. These VR headsets cost $2,295. Don’t own a Magic Leap One? AT&T has announced that they will be offering free demos of the Magic Leap One VR headset at select AT&T stores. “Without the limits of traditional screens, Magic…
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DIRECTV NOW is Once Again Offering $10 Off For Six Months
Did you recently leave DIRECTV NOW? AT&T wants you back and is once again offering former customers $10 off a month for 6 months if you come back. The best part is you can even get your old grandfathered DIRECTV NOW package back. This offer is only for former customers, and you need to check…
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AT&T Plans to Pull WarnerMedia Content From Places like Netflix, Amazon, & Hulu
Today AT&T announced plans to pull back content currently licensed to places like Netflix in preparation for its new streaming service. This likely means popular shows will be leaving Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu as AT&T gets ready to launch a new streaming service. “We are going to have to take a lot of the great…
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Sling TV’s President Thinks AT&T is Being “Anti-Competitive”
Back when AT&T was in trial with the DOJ fighting to buy Time Warner Sling TV’s President Warren Schlichting testified against the merger. Today at the Pay-TV Show he said he thinks the fears raised back during that trial have come true AT&T is being “anti-competitive.” How exactly AT&T is being anti-competitive was not disclosed…
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AT&T Plans to Launch a “Thin” Streaming Version of DIRECTV This Year But Expect DIRECTV Losses to Continue
Today AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said he expects DIRECTV’s rapid subscriber decline will continue in 2019. According to Randall, Stephenson AT&T plans to let lower revenue customers leave the service as their contracts expire. Mr. Stephenson did give us an update on DIRECTV’s new streaming services. According to Mr. Stephenson AT&T plans to launch it’s…