Tag: AT&T
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DirecTV’s New Live Streaming Service is Coming Soon
It has been almost a year since we first learned that AT&T planned to use the DirecTV brand to launch a new live TV online streaming service. Now, in a recent conference call with investors, CEO Randall Stephenson said that he has teased the new service and it would include more than 100 premium channels…
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AT&T Says Good-Bye to U-Verse
In a move that may be a surprise to some, AT&T is eliminating the U-Verse brand. This move is not a surprise, because AT&T had already announced their plans to move U-verse TV customers to DirecTV. “To make it simpler for our customers, AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet service and U-verse Voice services have new…
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AT&T Has Good News for Streamers with a Data Cap, But with a Catch…
Do you love to stream but are you stuck with one of AT&T’s low data caps? AT&T has good news for you—if you plan to get DirecTV’s new streaming service. Recently AT&T announced that they would not count data usage for their DirecTV streaming service against AT&T data caps. DirecTV Now will be AT&T’s Sling…
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AT&T U-verse Is Dropping Data Caps for Some Users
AT&T has long been known as one of the strictest ISPs when it comes to data caps on both their DSL service and U-verse Internet services. Now because Charter and Time Warner do not have data caps and Comcast is raising theirs to 1TB—not to mention new ISPs, such as Google Fiber, coming to new…
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AT&T Makes Changes to Their Data Caps
In what is probably a surprise to no one, AT&T is changing their data cap policy in response to recent changes at Comcast. If you have DSL, sorry, you are still stuck at 150GB a month—a painfully low cap; however, if you have AT&T Uverse Internet you now have a new rate. If you have…
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DirecTV Is Getting Closer to Releasing Their Sling TV Competitor
Late last year AT&T announced that they would be releasing a competitor, under the DirecTV name, to the online streaming service Sling TV to compete in the live streaming of cable channels. Now it looks like AT&T is getting closer to their new service with the purchase of the streaming service Quickplay Media. AT&T hopes…
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DirecTV Plans to Take on Sling TV
DirecTV and Dish have long been battling it out over subscribers as the two largest satellite TV services. Now they plan to fight it out on a new battlefield: online video streaming. According to the Wall Street Journal DirecTV announced they plan to launch a new streaming service in the fourth quarter of 2016. The…
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AT&T Puts Up $500 Million To Create Netflix Competitor
AT&T and The Chernin Group announced today that they are creating a join endeavor with a $500 million dollar investment to create a video streaming service similar to Netflix. In their announcement they point to the cord cutting movement as one of the main reason behind this move. This move will a services along side…