Sling TV CEO Pokes Fun at AT&T's Streaming Issues Sling TV CEO Roger Lynch has been poking fun at AT&T's streaming video service issues. AT&T's DirecTV Now has been relatively plagued with issues since launch, ranging from mysterious blackouts of NFL games, significant outages, false notices about exceeding the two stream limit, and more. Things have been compounded by AT&T's refusal to provide refunds to annoyed users (unless they beg the FCC), and the company's quick about face on its heavily-emphasized $35 for 100 channel promotional offer.

Unsurprisingly, AT&T's biggest streaming competitor right now (outside of Playstation Vue) thinks the entire affair is somewhat entertaining. "You should add @directvnow to that list of things to stay away from!," the CEO exclaimed in Twitter. "Try @Sling instead!" Granted Lynch shouldn't get too cocky, given his company's service had numerous issues of its own in its first year, including multiple outages. Such struggles aren't surprising for new services, though many DirecTV Now customers complain that they feel they're having to pay for what has been a glorified beta over the last few months. AT&T, meanwhile, insists that it continues to work on improving the service. "With any new technology there are going to be fixes that need to be made," AT&T says. "While we understand we still have work to do, overall feedback on DIRECTV NOW has been very positive. We’re continuously updating the app to provide a better experience for customers. We encourage customer to keep the app updated." »twitter.com/RogerLynch/s ··· rc%5Etfw









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Packeteers

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join:2005-06-18

Forest Hills, NY 9 recommendations Packeteers Premium Member glass houses sling should be proud of dvr missing airtv?



sling should be proud of forcing sports on it's subs?



with sony vue around, sling nor at&t has little to be proud of. HiDesert

join:2008-08-17 6 recommendations HiDesert Member Sling is no betta. Sling's PC app was unusable for an entire year at launch. In the beginning Sling had issues with their Android app as well and it was slow and laggy (It's still very slow). Support just gave you the runaround when they knew good and well the apps were half baked. And the CEO pokes fun? Really? IMO, all these streaming services are compromised like Cable/Sat services. They suffer from some degree of forced bundling from he content providers. With sling, Disney forces it's ESPN on users which probably makes up over a third of the cost of subscription. Needless to say, I found Sling to be a poor value and cancelled. Even when they finally fixed the software, which took far too long to fix, it was not worth it. Not even remotely so.

battleop

join:2005-09-28

00000 3 recommendations battleop Member Companies run by immature brats... I find these pokes at each other between CEOs to be nothing more than spoiled brats behaving like immature children. They need to focus on their own companies and not worry about making fun of the competition. If their competition sucks they won't be completion for very long. Focus on making your company not sucking.

bandit8623

join:2004-09-08

Minneapolis, MN 2 recommendations bandit8623 Member Lol at sling I tried sling 3 times over 3 months.



Streaming issues constantly. Dont know why they are talking smack