On paper, combining DirecTV and Dish makes enormous business sense. The DirecTV and Dish customers for Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) service peaked in 2015, about the time that AT&T purchased DirecTV for more than $48 billion. The economic prospects for DBS services have steadily, and at times rapidly, declined since. A combined corporate entity could more efficiently manage the predictable decline of DBS service than can DirecTV and Dish separately.
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