DirecTV Finally Realizes Satellite Internet Isn’t So Good

It only cost them a $1.6 billion write-off, but despite years of evidence, it looks like DirecTV has just now realized that they’re better off offering TV programming over satellites than trying to cram internet access over satellites. For years, the satellite providers keep trying to do internet access, but the latency issue and other problems have proven to be too big — as other alternatives have made the need for satellite based internet mostly disappear.

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