AT&T is bleeding pay-TV subscribers, as is the entire industry. But AT&T's handling of the DirecTV merger may have contributed to these declines.
But the engineers who spoke with Business Insider said they felt increasingly cut off from the innovation projects, and that the new setup for R&D stifled cross-team information sharing.
The training subject areas often had nothing to do with their job functions but required hours of time every few weeks, which employees said hurt their productivity. Instead, AT&T bought streaming video platform Quickplay Media in 2016, then set out to build DirecTV Now on top of it. The acquisition leveraged an existing relationship between the two companies. Quickplay already supported AT&T's pay-TV service U-Verse, which had about 6 million customers in 21 states.
Sling TV has been out in the market longer than DirecTV Now which contributes to its larger subscriber base, Dan Rayburn, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan, told Business Insider.Former CEO of AT&T Entertainment Group John Stankey during AT&T's Launch of DIRECTV NOW in 2016.When DirecTV Now did launch, there was little testing before the service went live, causing service snafus like the inability for"No one tested after new builds. A normal testing cycle might be two weeks.
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