Anecdotally, our household dropped Dish Network satellite service to go 100% over-the-network. We got Roku boxes and plugged them in to the home router. We pi

Anecdotally, our household dropped Dish Network satellite service to go 100% over-the-network. We got Roku boxes and plugged them in to the home router. We picked DirecTV Now as the TV channels provider. Yes, they subsequently raised prices, but we were grandfathered in under the previous plan. It was acceptable. The thing that made us drop it was the slideshow-style insert ads promoting The Last O.G., Teen Titans Go, and one of two other shows on AT&T's own-content channel, accompanied by obnoxious, loud "music". AT&T basically annoyed us into dropping their online television service. All my "told you so" thoughts were of no comfort. I knew AT&T was going to AT&T, and said so, but nobody listened to me, and so they all got to see firsthand why I hate AT&T so much. So we decided to switch to Sling. It took all of ten minutes. AT&T has operated forever on the "no consumer choice" business model as a telecom. If it keeps pulling the same anti-consumer nonsense in a low-friction competitive market, it will die the ultra-slow death of a company that can still barely succeed just because it's too big to fail. And to be honest, we are watching less and less of the broadcast channels, in favor of commercial-free services. The AT&T ad starkly highlighted the sheer number of advertisements that were entering our home via television, because they were all replaced with the most annoying reminder ever conceived. Netflix has no ads. The good tier of Hulu has no ads. Then you can switch over to the television channels and get the same content, only when the channel pushes it, with 1/3 ads.