AT&T and DISH Network's marketing deal changes status to "it's complicated"

AT&T and DISH's tumultuous relationship seems to be ending, with the satellite company filing an 8-K form with the SEC indicating its received notice from the telco that it plans to end their marketing collaboration as of December 31. The possibly ill-fated from the beginning arrangement hasn't necessarily gone beyond the point of no return, since AT&T reps have indicated this was simply necessary for a six-month notification, but the company is still "discussing options" with DISH. Multichannel News contacted DirecTV and they indicated they too, are also still negotiating with AT&T in a bid to market triple-play services in areas where it hasn't rolled out U-Verse service yet. At this point we're expecting a drunken teary phone call from one or both (or all three) parties wondering where things went wrong any minute now.

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[(Unverified) Posted Jul 1st 2008 9:06PM]

Sucks for me. I do installs for Dish, and things are slow enough. Hopefully, they work it out...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 1st 2008 9:33PM]

do you get paid by the install or by the hour?




also on a side note this sucks i just got Dish via ATT in my new apartments and i might add i dont like dish , TWC is not available in my area or i would still be with them :( oh well *crosses fingers * hopefully Uverse will be out here soon

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 1st 2008 9:59PM]

@texan

Are you El Paso by chance? If you are I would stay away from TWC. Their PQ (when I had cable) sucks and when my modem died, I had a 10 day wait till a tech would grace me with his presence. That is BullSt service!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 2nd 2008 10:05PM]

(Sorry for the double post. Accidentally hit a link, went back and I guess it forgot who I was replying to.)

I live in El Paso and used to have TWC. It was awful. The 5 Mbps connection down was wonderful... When it worked.

I now have AT&T, Dish, and HomeZone (despite the slow 1.5 Mbps in my neighborhood) and have not had any major problems since it was installed in December.

brux2dc, just out of curiosity, what is the max DSL speed you get in your area?

[Garst Posted Jul 2nd 2008 1:28AM]

This isn't news. I saw this coming when SBC announced IPTV service will come. That was what, 5 years ago? Why there are still people that can't get IPTV yet? That I don't know.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 2nd 2008 10:02AM]

Great pic for the article.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 2nd 2008 10:01PM]

I live in El Paso and used to have TWC. It was awful. The 5 Mbps connection down was wonderful... When it worked.

I now have AT&T, Dish, and HomeZone (despite the slow 1.5 Mbps in my neighborhood) and have not had any major problems since it was installed in December.

brux2dc, just out of curiosity, what is the max DSL speed you get in your area?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 5:58PM]

I still use TWC for inet. I don't have nor want a phone line.

Can't wait for UVerse! I miss FIOS!!!