AT&T’s DirecTV Now plagued with outages and sports blackouts

Enlarge (credit: AT&T)

Barely two weeks after AT&T launched DirecTV Now, the online streaming service’s customers have already been hit by multiple outages, unexpected blackouts of live local sports games, and missing channels.

There was an outage of about three hours last night and a two-hour outage Friday night, TVPredictions reported today. “DirecTV Now’s customers said they couldn’t log onto the streaming service, or they were suddenly met with a blank screen if already watching,” the report said.

Ars Technica Senior Editor David Kravets was affected by yesterday’s outage, being met by this error message when he tried to watch DirecTV Now:

Read 15 remaining paragraphs | Comments



Source: Ars Technica – AT&T’s DirecTV Now plagued with outages and sports blackouts