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To: robert b furman who wrote (33156)	10/25/2020 9:57:16 PM
From: Steve Felix	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

I was a Dish Network customer, and thought it just got ridiculous. Something like $180 a month. Tarheel fanatic that I am, and with Dish not saying they would carry the ACC Network for sure, I ordered a Roku and signed up with Sling for $30 a month, plus $12 a month for the ACC. $12 a month more for Netflix, and we are still saving a pile of money. We have a $35 HD aerial that picks up eleven fairly local stations. Comes in handy toward cable internet at $112 a month, but once you've gone cable, you can't go back. lol! T has been cutting head count. No idea why 2015 number of employees means anything, but two years in one would expect a lower headcount after a merger: "Nearly 9,000 jobs appear to have vanished since last quarter - about 4% of the total - and that's before AT&T announced this month that thousands more jobs were coming out of Warner Media, which is looking to slash costs by 20%. The two companies together had employed about 281,450 people in 2015, and the number at AT&T is now 234,630 - lighter by about 47,000 jobs, about 17% of the 2015 total" Jmho that Direct TV is an albatross around their neck: AT&T pushes forward with DirecTV sale, though bids are low - report seekingalpha.com "DirecTV is hemorrhaging subscribers at an alarming rate. AT&T’s “Video Connection” division said it lost 886,000 subscribers in the most recent quarter — nearly matching the first quarter’s losses for a total of 1.78 million, or 9 percent of the total in the first half. DirecTV accounts for about 80 percent of that division, implying it has 14.3 million subscribers, according to an estimate by Bruce Leichtman of the Leichtman Research Group."