uverse discontinued

Listening to all the Expert Advise.

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@peachy93 wrote:
I was told by ATT that they are discontinuing u-verse within 18 months.

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Who told you?  Only thing ATT has announced is Uverse will be continuing.  No time date has been announced. 

Guess I won't have ATT service if that's the case as DirecTV probably won't work.   Oh, that's right, they will be bringing an Internet form of DirecTV out in about 18 months.

Edit:  Did find this from John Stankey on Multichannel:

The first step along that path, Stankey said, is to get that nailed up for the OTT service and then to start the migration on the legacy U-verse and satellite TV services, giving AT&T agnostic access over managed and unmanaged distribution systems.

“Technically, that’s not an insignificant feat,” he said.

Earlier in the discussion, he acknowledged that AT&T has “a lot of platform work to do.”

“We didn’t buy DirecTV because we want satellite exclusively as a distribution medium,” Stankey said. “We bought it because it gave us scale in entertainment, and scale in distribution of entertainment.”

http://www.multichannel.com/news/content/stankey-directv-now-won-t-be-skinny/403010

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JUST STOP nmaking me pay for (subsidize) all the dang sports channels that I NEVER watch and I'd switch to almost anything to get what I want and no more...

I live in Spartanburg SC and had an AT&T sales guy knock on my door this afternoon. He said that AT&T will stop offering Uverse at the end of 2016. The salesman offered Direct TV at a discount as an incentive to make the change now. I guess I"ll be switching back to Charter.

A DIRECTV salesman will tell you ANYTHING to get you to buy DIRECTV.

They're not alone:

 A DISH salesman will tell you ANYTHING to get you to buy DISH.

AT&T is currently not employing U-verse TV salesmen, so... Hey, it could be true.  But I wouldn't take that guy's word for.  

DIRECTV is supposed to be gone in 18 months as well.  Maybe just the name, though.

you're right Uverse is better but the real reason its being phased out is because Directv can literally be sold to anyone who has a clear view of the sky. Less infrastructure and larger audience. Who cares about reliability right!?

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@terrykirby wrote:

JUST STOP nmaking me pay for (subsidize) all the dang sports channels that I NEVER watch and I'd switch to almost anything to get what I want and no more...

NEVER going to happen. Say I pay $103.95/mo for my U-whatever package. The sports channels are typically the most expensive. However, if all I watch is TLC, the two Hallmark channels, a couple news channels and 3-4 kids channels, I'd still pay an exorbitant rate. By charging everyone typically $3-4 per channel, we all have the ability to flip on that channel for one or two shows because we all pay the same.

HBO is currently $9/mo. HBO and Cinemax together are something like $15. The movie package, last I checked can be bought for $20/mo with U-200.

What makes people think that they could buy TLC, the news channels, the kids channels and the two Hallmark channels for the same "pennies on the dollar" that they do now? Those channels would *still* need to make the same amount of income that they do when they charge millions of people "pennies on the dollar."