Tag: DIRECTV NOW
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Today Comcast Comes to Roku Players – DIRECTV NOW Coming Soon…
Today the long-awaited Comcast Xfinity Roku Channel finally arrived after being announced late last year. Although cord cutters likely do not care about Comcast on Roku, it is good news because it likely means the DIRECTV NOW Roku channel will be here soon. So why does this mean DIRECTV NOW should be on Roku players…
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Sling TV CEO Comments on DIRECTV NOW: “We Feel Like Beneficiaries From The New Entrants”
After a less than smooth launch of DIRECTV NOW, its competitors, such as Sling TV, have been working hard to capitalize on the situation. Now Roger Lynch, the CEO of Sling TV, has gone on the offensive. “When we launched Sling TV two years ago, we expected competition to quickly enter the market and frankly…
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DIRECTV NOW is Saving AT&T’s TV Business
You may have recently heard that AT&T has for the first time in a long time added subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2016; however, the truth is all of the subscriber growth AT&T’s TV business saw was from DIRECTV NOW. Even with U-Verse and the traditional satellite DIRECTV service AT&T would have lost subscribers…
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Most Cord Cutters Do Not Subscribe to a Live TV Service
The battle for your streaming dollar is heating up as more streaming services come on the market. And it is about to get even more crowded with Hulu about to launch a new live TV service followed by YouTube, Fubu, and Vidgo all expected to launch new services this year. So the question is who…
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T-Mobile is Offering a Free Year of Hulu For Anyone Who Took Their Free DIRECTV NOW Deal
T-Mobile is at it again with their offers to attract AT&T customers to switch. Recently they offered a free year of DIRECTV NOW but now T-Mobile says if you took them up on that offer they will also give you a free year of Hulu. That may leave some to wonder why why are they giving…
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AT&T Hopes to Disrupt Traditional ISPs With a DIRECTV NOW 5G Test
For many years the dream of a high speed wireless Internet service has been on the minds of many cord cutters: The idea that more Internet service providers could bring competition to your home market without the high cost of laying cables to every house in America was too good to be true. If successful…
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DIRECTV NOW Adds NBC to The Fire TV
When DIRECTV NOW launched it made it very clear that NBC would only be available on phones and tablets. If you wanted to watch NBC on your TV you would still need an antenna. Yet this week AT&T updated the Fire TV and Fire Stick’s DIRECTV NOW app. Suddenly subscribers to DIRECTV NOW who live…
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Explaining How DIRECTV NOW’s Unlimited Data Works
One of the primary selling points for DIRECTV NOW was the ability to have unlimited streaming of DIRECTV NOW if you have AT&T wireless. Yet several Cord Cutters News readers have been contacting us complaining of seeing their data cap quickly eaten up by DIRECTV NOW. Some are complaining that DIRECTV NOW was using as…
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Over 200,000 Americans Have Signed Up For DIRECTV NOW
AT&T had a good start to DIRECTV NOW at least in the number of signups. According to a SEC document filled today and sported by Variety AT&T added more than 200,000 video subscribers in the fourth quarter — which was “entirely driven” by its new DRECTV NOW internet-delivered pay-TV service, AT&T said Friday. “While it’s early days, our recent…
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DIRECTV NOW Sees Strong Early Subscriber Growth
DIRECTV NOW seems to be off to a strong start at least when it comes to subscribers. A recent report says that AT&T’s new DIRECTV NOW service is averaging about 35,000 simultaneous viewers. Yet simultaneous usage doesn’t indicate the number of subs that DIRECTV NOW has, but from the data they have Dan Rayburn from StreamingMedia.com…