Fast forward to 2016, DirecTV had more than doubled its customer base to 25.5 million subscribers. However, as streaming services began to dominate the TV landscape and other satellite companies, like Elon Musk's Starlink, entered the picture, the satellite TV business slumped. Today, the two companies boast roughly the same number of customers as they did when federal regulators nixed their merger more than two decades ago – with EchoStar reporting about 8 million subscribers as of June and analysts estimating DirecTV's subscriber base to be around 11 million.
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