Telecom giant AT&T Inc. will end its current contract to sell a product bundle that includes satellite broadcaster Dish Network Corp.’s television packages, the satellite TV company announced Tuesday. The contract, originally signed in 2003, is set to expire Dec. 31.
Englewood, Colo.-based Dish has been the bundle partner of AT&T in some parts of AT&T territory but not in others. AT&T previously had offered competitor DirecTV’s programming in its bundle in the southeastern United States, a holdover arrangement from when it was Bell South territory prior to AT&T’s acquisition of Bell South. But AT&T switched to Dish Network there in April.
AT&T has let it be known it plans to pick one bundle partner — either Dish Network or DirecTV — nationally before the start of next year. On June 12, AT&T told Dish Network to pay back $500 million plus interest in debt notes held by an AT&T subsidiary. It’s not clear if that decision was connected to AT&T’s negotiations about the terms of a new satellite TV partnership.
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