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After acquiring Time Warner, AT&T is set to launch DirecTV

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After acquiring Time Warner, AT&T is set to launch DirecTV

Earlier this year, the AT&T-owned DirecTV announced that it would launch DirecTV Now, putting it in direct competition with Dish’s Sling TV.

The service is finally set to launch next month, and while no one outside of the company has seen it in action, it’s coming out swinging, offering more than 100 channels for $35 per month.

While DirecTV Now has been kept relatively under wraps for the past several months, AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson revealed the details at the Wall Street Journal’s WSJ.D Live conference on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

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This comes as somewhat of a shock, considering the company had previously said that it wasn’t looking to offer a price much lower than its competition.

The current two main competitors on the market, Sling TV and PlayStation Vue, don’t offer nearly as many channels for the money. Sling TV starts at $20 per month, but only offers a handful of channels for this price, and while adding all of its offered channels together ups the count considerably, the price would be much higher than AT&T’s offering.

 

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