These were adopted on 26 February 2016, it is withdrawn from the offer of TV channels AT > T U-verse. At an analyst meeting in August 2015, following AT&T`s acquisition of satellite provider DirecTV, AT&T announced plans for a new «Home Entertainment Gateway» platform that will converge with DirecTV and U-verse around a common platform based on DirecTV hardware with «very thin hardware profiles.» John Stankey, CEO of AT&T Entertainment and Internet Services, said the new platform will offer «a single truck-roll facility for multiple products, live local streaming, enhanced content portability, over-the-high integration for mobile broadband and new UI development.» [14] [15] AT&T provides most U-verse services via a Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN) or Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) communication network. . . .