AT&T to offer DirecTV services
By Jeff Smith, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published September 27, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
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AT&T said Friday it will offer DirecTV satellite-TV services to its customers after its agreement with Dish Network expires on Jan. 31, 2009.
Most experts expected AT&T would go with rival DirecTV. Douglas County-based Dish said in July that AT&T had decided to end a five-year agreement to resell Dish services. The agreement was to expire on Dec. 31, but recently was extended a month.
Still, the official loss of the deal to DirecTV, now controlled by John Malone's Liberty Media, marks another setback for Dish. Dish recently reported its first quarterly loss of subscribers.
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