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Claircom
September 26th, 2002, 07:34 PM
Read this in my travels today... Just a short quote:

Meanwhile, DirecTV told analysts that cash flow in the third quarter will be higher than expected — because it will have fewer subscribers than it projected. It blamed the shortfall on a weak economy and a crackdown on subscribers who used hacked decoder cards to get free premium channels.

"It's bad because subscriber growth is shrinking," says Steve Mather of Sanders Morris Harris. "While they have a half-decent answer, it's a bad situation."

Read the entire article here...

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techcorporatenews/2002-09-25-dbs_x.htm

Zappa Crappa
September 26th, 2002, 08:14 PM
At the Direct TV site they had (have) a link there to "express an opinion" on the "deal".