AT&T Says Early Demand for DirecTV Now Is ‘Exceeding Expectations’

Plus, Verizon details its 5G deployment plans

Last week's launch of DirecTV Now was plagued with errors, but AT&T says it's thrilled with the early interest in its new streaming bundle offering.

"The early demand has been rather dramatic … we've been pleased with it," Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chairman, CEO and president, said this morning at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York. (Yesterday, execs from Netflix, CBS, 21st Century Fox and Discovery Communications spoke at the conference.)

Stephenson said that John Stankey, CEO of AT&T Entertainment Group, told him that AT&T met its goals for December subscribers last Wednesday, the first day DirecTV Now was available.

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