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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg PENL podcast. I'm Paul Swinge. You,

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. We want to switch gears a

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Speaker 1: about direct TV, the pay TV business. There's lots going

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Speaker 1: on there. Something that came out a little bit strange.

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Speaker 1: I think in this world of court cutting is a

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Speaker 1: T and T s direct TV business is actually raising rates.

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Speaker 1: So to help us kind of walk through the strategy there,

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Speaker 1: we welcome John Butler. John and John is a senior

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Speaker 1: Telecom services and Equipment analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. He joins

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Speaker 1: us in our Bloomberg Interactive Broker studio. John. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Uh in a world of court cutting, a

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Speaker 1: price increase seemed a little strange. What do you read

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Speaker 1: into it? It does, But I don't think they're making

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Speaker 1: we want to get towards that break even Ibada in

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Speaker 1: this business. And I think also advertising plays into it.

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Speaker 1: So they ran promotions to get subscribers into direct tv Now.

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Speaker 1: In the beginning, it's a video PayTV video streaming service,

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Speaker 1: they're up against a lot of competition. They offered low

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Speaker 1: does this suggest that they're really having problems competing with

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are asking what's on Netflix tonight,

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Speaker 1: they're trying to stabilize that, and I think by sort

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Speaker 1: So just real quickly here, I'm wondering from an antitrust

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us. Really really interesting, uh,

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Speaker 1: that A T and T is hiking its prices amid

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Speaker 1: all of that fierce competition. John Butler is Bloomberg and

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Speaker 1: North American telecoms UH Bloomberg, analyst for Bloomberg in intelligence. Well,

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Speaker 1: Amazon dot Com poll has been transforming the retail landscape

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Speaker 1: Francisco studio John, you are there to celebrate the fiftieth

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here. Thanks for having me.

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