Humax Inks Deal With DIRECTV for Digital Satellite Set Top Boxes Humax, a leading international manufacturer of digital satellite set-top boxes today disclosed it has entered into a development agreement and supply agreement with DIRECTV, Inc. the leading digital satellite TV provider in the United States. The agreements encompass various set top box models including […]
DIRECTV Tunes in to Expanded AT&T Contract AT&T announced today that it has expanded its decade-long relationship with DIRECTV, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of digital multichannel television service, with a new three-year networking contract valued at more than $69 million. The agreement ensures that DIRECTV is better able to control costs while gaining the […]
Verizon, DirecTV get closer — for now Over the past month, Verizon has begun offering new customers a single bill that combines their satellite TV charges with their phone bill, more clearly identifying the $2 to $6 in monthly savings they can get. By June, Verizon hopes to begin sending a combined statement to tens […]
DirecTV playing hardball with signal pirates Tampering with satellite television service can lead to towering court judgments and costly legal representation. Even the appearance of it can have monetary consequences. In the last two years, satellite television giant DirecTV has filed federal lawsuits against 25,000 people nationally for tapping its signal without paying its monthly […]
BellSouth Reaches 200,000 DIRECTV Customer Milestone BellSouth announced today that more than 200,000 customers have added DIRECTV(R) digital satellite television service to their BellSouth communications services packages since the company began offering the service in August 2004. During the fourth quarter of 2004, BellSouth added almost 109,000 subscribers to its DIRECTV offer. “This significant milestone […]