DirecTV Prepares for New Price Hikes in 2018 AT&T and DirecTV will be ringing in the new year with some notable price hikes on the company's television offerings. A notice posted to the company's website (hat tip, TV Predictions ) notes that prices on most DirecTV channel packages will be increasing anywhere from $2 to $8 per month, with users also seeing increases in the company's Regional Sports Fee. "Due to higher costs of programming, the monthly rate for the below services will increase on January 21, 2018, and the changes will appear in billing statements starting on that date," DirecTV owner AT&T said of the increases.







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ilikeme

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Stafford, TX 7 recommendations ilikeme Premium Member Cut the cord! I cut the Directv cord a year ago and couldn’t be happier! Been saving a fortune with streaming!

r81984

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Katy, TX 6 recommendations r81984 Premium Member DirecTV Price Hikes DirecTV prepares for new price hikes in (insert next year here).

Anon13697

@chtrptr.net 5 recommendations Anon13697 Anon Cable/satellite comapnies should eat programming costs Just kidding. I hate prices hikes, but let's not pretend that content owners thinking their crappy content is actually worth more than what it's worth is not part of this problem. If for example Viacom wants $10 more per month then I expect said cable company to increase prices by $10 a month and you would too if you were them.

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Orange, CA 4 recommendations maartena Premium Member What a big surprise!!





We were all so surprised by this. No way we would have seen this coming.