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HBO CEO doesn’t get why ISPs like Comcast won’t embrace HBO Now
This week at the WSJD Live event in Southern California, HBO CEO Richard Plepler took the stage to criticize broadband providers like Comcast, Charter, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T (which owns DirecTV) for not jumping at the chance to bundle HBO Now with their Internet services. The network launched HBO Now, a standalone streaming service that costs $15 per month, earlier this year. Initially, you could only get the service...
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Comcast and the other companies like it will either die a slow death in which we consumers have to weather the death throes, or someone will drag them kicking and screaming into the modern age. Either way, until they learn to treat their customers as more than numbers on a spreadsheet, it won't be a pleasant experience for anyone.