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AT&T Buying DirecTV for $48.5B


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Fugging great, AT&T will control your TV and your internet now.

Basically we're double fugged.

 

I've been waiting for DirecTV to buy the rights to Dodger games here in SoCal because I know Dish won't.

Really don't want to get TWC for TV as they own the rights to dodger braodcasts and no other providers have made a deal with them yet..

Wonder what this might mean for Sunday Ticket as well.

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Fugging great, AT&T will control your TV and your internet now.

Basically we're double fugged.

 

I've been waiting for DirecTV to buy the rights to Dodger games here in SoCal because I know Dish won't.

Really don't want to get TWC for TV as they own the rights to dodger braodcasts and no other providers have made a deal with them yet..

Wonder what this might mean for Sunday Ticket as well.

 

Not to change the subject, but I grew up with the Dodgers... our parents would leave us with a babysitter when we were really young and they went to games at the Coliseum before Dodger Stadium was built. The swag they came home with- free stuff- back then was unbelievable.

 

I even saw Sandy Koufax pitch one of his no-hitters. I always wore #5 for Jim Lefebvre, loved Willy Davis, Maury Wills, all the guys from the 60's and early 70's. 

 

My sister still lives out there and is a huge Dodger fan.

 

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Last Friday, the FCC issued a public notice stating that a subsidiary of Dish Network Corporation (American H Block Wireless, L.L.C.) won the licenses for the PCS H block spectrum across the entire country. With the acquisition of the PCS H block spectrum, Dish can finally realize its dreams of becoming a player in the wireless broadband market. 150Mbps LTE-Advanced might be coming to your rural community sooner than you expected. [Read the FCC public notice]

To understand what Dish may want to do with its spectrum, we have to look back to what Dish’s goals were when it was attempting to acquire Sprint instead of SoftBank. Back then, Dish wanted to utilize Sprint’s extensive footprint with Clearwire’s extensive spectrum to support the urban areas with Sprint’s current assets and build out to support suburban and rural areas with wireless service.

http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/177897-dish-secures-spectrum-for-150mbps-lte-to-rural-homes-in-the-us

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Outsourced customer service? There is basically zero phone numbers to contact anyone at Direct TV in the US.

I had Direct TV, moved.. Cancelled.. Payed a cancelation fee.. And then was wrongly charged over $900.00 for 2 unreturned receiver boxes which put my account overdraft for another $300.00 for all the subsequent paid bills, gas and .70 cent gum purchases..

They admitted they made a mistake after speaking to cutomer service reps for a documented 13 hours. They agreed to refund me in 8-12 weeks!

Each rep was in India but the most helpful one was a guy named "Jerry". When prompted for his last name he reluctantly said his last name was Garcia.

Dealing with Bank of America about the overdraft charges was more of a nightmare so I got the corporate Shat Sandwich between the two. Id rather deal with Middle easterners reading prompts than actually being dished pooh to my face in the US... In a local branch.

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Some serious consolidation going on telcom.

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The Smartphone is the last major consumer tech invention that still has growth.

A lot of tech products are very mature...

- Internet? Yep...

- TV.. Of course...

-Home Security? Eh .. Ok

- home phone? Lol no..

TV providers have nothing new to offer and content providers are driving up prices for cable and and Satelite. The way we consume media now also kills TV providers with no real way to account for ratings.

Telecom is a flat if not dying industry as is general IT that some venture in to. It will be interesting to see where these companies are in 8-10 years as they all shrink with no adjustment on their business models.

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Outsourced customer service? There is basically zero phone numbers to contact anyone at Direct TV in the US.

I had Direct TV, moved.. Cancelled.. Payed a cancelation fee.. And then was wrongly charged over $900.00 for 2 unreturned receiver boxes which put my account overdraft for another $300.00 for all the subsequent paid bills, gas and .70 cent gum purchases..

They admitted they made a mistake after speaking to cutomer service reps for a documented 13 hours. They agreed to refund me in 8-12 weeks!

Each rep was in India but the most helpful one was a guy named "Jerry". When prompted for his last name he reluctantly said his last name was Garcia.

Dealing with Bank of America about the overdraft charges was more of a nightmare so I got the corporate Shat Sandwich between the two. Id rather deal with Middle easterners reading prompts than actually being dished pooh to my face in the US... In a local branch.

 

Hmmm, I've had DirecTV for almost 15 years now and have never spoken with anyone outside the US. I've moved with them twice, within 6 months I might add with no issues. I can honestly say I've never been on the phone for more than 15 minutes with anyone from DirecTV.

 

I really feel like they are one of the few services I pay for that I actually have some confidence in.

 

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