One of AT&T’s primary motivations for buying DirecTV was to get better deals on programming costs, and as AT&T Senior Executive John Stephens revealed today, those savings are big – bigger than many of us probably expected. DirecTV was paying an average of $17 less per month for content than AT&T was paying for U-verse customers, noted Stephens at the Goldman Sachs 24th Annual Communacopia Conference, which was also webcast.
Source: DirecTV Impact: AT&T Saves $17 Per Customer Monthly on U-verse Content Costs – Telecompetitor