DirecTV Now racked up nearly 1.2 million subscribers by the end of 2017, a little over a year after AT&T launched the internet pay-TV service.
As of the end of 2017, AT&T had 25.2 million video subscribers in the U.S., down 1.1% versus 25.5 million a year earlier (and a decline from 25.08 million at the close of Q3 2017). AT&T released the numbers in reporting Q4 2017 results.
DirecTV Now represents “a video product we are convinced will give us growth” over the next three years as legacy pay-TV services decline, chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson told analysts on AT&T’s earnings call Wednesday. “We are very bullish on video.”
Source: http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/directv-now-subscribers-att-q4-2017-1202683048/