When we are boasting the fact that we lost fewer DirecTV subscribers in the second quarter than in the first, when that's the thing to celebrate, then you know things are bad. It's not "our subscriber numbers have increased" or even "our subscriber numbers have remained the same." The reason to celebrate is that we didn't lose as many as we could. Perfectly sumps us this leadership's achievements.
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Gotta love these C-suite boot lickers. They continue to believe in unicorns and fa----s. They think T is a perpetual money machine that could never go bankrupt. Keep dreaming, at some point there won't be enough paying customers to pay the bills. Quarter after quarter the customer numbers dwindle. They will eventually hit that tipping point.
Look,this is the deal!Directv should be sold off 100% to be relevant again in today’s market!Cant give Charlie Ergen the pleasure of owning Directv,he screwed Att before and will again!Directv was his competition and blew Dish out of the water! Someone who owned Directv needs to man up and come back to work!
Things are looking better. Let's whine some more. Let's say crazy things like bankruptcy.
Ever since this regime started it was apparent they wanted to drive customers away in droves. It's like a race to get to bankruptcy court.
Even with a mere 673,000 loss per quarter - how many more quarters like this before the cost to provide the service outweighs the revenue brought in by paying customers?
There has to be a baseline cost-of-doing- business that must be exceeded in order to be even remotely considered profitable. Would love to know the magic number - is it 5 million customers, or 10 or 15?
At what point do we lose enough paying customers to where it costs us to operate this enterprise - when cost exceeds revenue - next step is bankruptcy - how close are we to that tipping point?
This John Stankey fellow really is a Grade-A piece of S**t. When does this maroon leave town?
Just goes to show that you can spin any bad performance data into good performance data.
I just want a pay raise to supplement the price changes at the pump and grocery stores,power bill and all expenses!Now we are facing an inflation crisis so CWA should stand up and demand more money for its workers and renegotiate pay raises for inflation as well!!!!
NEW DirecTV CEO Bill Morrow is only speaking in terms of 2 to 3 years - so read what you will about that.
The talking heads on the stock shows have supposed that D would be merged with Dish - but Biden has pretty much quashed that line of thinking with his appointees to the FTC and FCC. So much for Plan A.
Plan B is becoming clear - stick the suckers and charge the heck out of them -
TPG wants a return on their 16 billion - we are already being pushed to sell the Protection Plan at a 55% rate - which has NEVER happened before - most regional take rates barely ever hit 35 percent over the last 10 years - going to be a lot of blind "sign here" on the handhelds to meet that 55 metric.
Being told that even if a customer cancels at the door - we should charge them for a service call at 99 bucks because after all, we said hi and someone has to pay for the truck and the gas, might as well be that poor su---r who dared to call us.
Good thing I lived on the streets of LA as a street rat for 3 years as a runaway - I learned how to con, rip off, and juke the suckers - and to do it with no remorse - I'm perfect for the NEW DirecTV!
They’ve been saying subscriber loss will hit bottom for many quarters, “stabilize revenue”.
Once all subs have dropped, by definition, there won't be any further subscriber losses, and revenue will stabilize.
Then, Stank and the Mackerel Fish will claim credit for single handedly stabilizing the metrics.
There are already better deals out there from competitors even with the so called att benefits. what a joke
Is the T discount for DTV going to be decreased/removed?
Don't forget that after the next football season which starts in a few months, we lose exclusive rights to NFL Sunday Ticket - most likely to either Apple +, Disney ESPN or even Peacock.
Even if the NEW DTV somehow manages to keep NFL ST for our commercial bar and restaurant accounts - there are upwards of 2 million residential customers that would drop us like a dirty diaper.
They’ve been saying subscriber loss will hit bottom for many quarters, “stabilize revenue”. McFresh said all goals accomplished. What a bunch horse cr-p! Stanley is evangelizing pay for performance with the troops. If losing customers is the measure for greatness, we all should getting huge raises.
Stink seems to be following the Newspeak playbook quite well. Subscriber loss is gain. Selling DTV & WM for 10% of what he paid is a profit. Eliminating benefits is an increase in employee perks.
Anyone who says otherwise is Goldstein. Big Stink is watching you!
Just wait until the discount for T employees is discontinued. The tens of thousand of disconnects will shatter the next quarterly report!
Way to Go Stinky! You piece of S H I T!
Stankey turning things around.
That is why Ratty and Stinky are at the top of Jim Cramer's CEO Wall of Shame!
Proof of another fine Ratty Stinky merger choice of supreme importance - to enriching themselves!