latterly last month , AT&T bought DirecTV for $ 48.5 billion , merging America ’s secondly grown cell carrier with its bragging planet video provider . Now , DirecTV and Ma Bell are already announce a $ 200 promo deal that ’ll roll out across the country next week .
With the promo , fresh customers to AT&T ’s U - verse TV or DirecTV will get canonical HD idiot box and DVR for four receivers , plus four wireless phone line with 10 shareable gigs of data point , for $ 200 a calendar month over the first yr . unexampled U - verse line customers must sign up for a one class declaration between August 10 and November 14 to get in on the trade , while DirecTV users have to sign up for two geezerhood . The annual savings of $ 600only last a twelvemonth , however .
AT&T and DirecTV are already giant companies . So , when the two telecom titans announced the merger last month , the FCC forced them to makecertain promise . For example , to check the companies enlarge their services , they must boost their roughage optic broadband user fundament by 12.5 million client , include in schools and subroutine library . Broadband also must be offer to low - income client at discounted rates .
So AT&T and DirecTV are move fast with this new promo . We ’ll have to wait and see how with child thebiggest earnings - telly caller in Americawill get .
[ AT&TviaEngadgetandUSA Today ]
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