Technically that is correct, and it may have been self-serving lip service, but there are many barriers between DBS and Cable, both real and perceived that prevent real competition. Line of sight issues, such as trees, buildings or north-facing apartments, unavailability of cable in rural and even semi-rural areas, and a large group of customers that would never use one or the other for perceived reliability issues.
How Should Dish be compensated if Directv/At&T Merge?
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All true of course, but the cable subscribers added together dwarfs Direct At&t. As you say getting customers from Cable to Satellite is not as easy as luring Direct At&t customers but to me that's what makes Cable the real competitor. Getting a portion of their customers is what DBS needs, both companies.
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