AT&T has reported that total linear video subscribers were down for the first quarter of 2017. However, in the quarter there was an increase in subscribers for DirecTV Now. The number of satellite subscribers remained the same in the quarter, and around 84% of the linear video base is now on the satellite platform. Subscribers for the IPTV service fell by 233,000, although the Entertainment Group, as a whole, ended the quarter with 25 million linear video subscribers.
DirecTV Latin America, after updating the way it counted prepaid subscribers, showed an increase of 1.1 million subscribers for the quarter. Net additions were 91,000 subscribers reaching 13.7 million subscribers at the end of the quarter. Sky Mexico had approximately 8 million subscribers at the end of last year.
