Business View Magazine | January 2020

49 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 BROADBAND HOSP I TAL I TY package and offer the properties a better price. They get one number to call, one bill to pay, so they aren’t managing several different vendors. That’s really an advantage for us and for the customer.” This year, as part of their long-term outlook, Broadband will also be launching a new partner portal that will allow outside distributors to source out some of the company’s existing services. “DIRECTV has hundreds of dealers across the country, for example, but many of those dealers just offer DIRECTV. The natural things that compliment HDTV satellite services— right away, you think about the bandwidth, the WiFi—they can’t do it themselves. Through our partner portal, we’ll be able to fulfill those asks for them while they maintain the relationship with their customers. We’re currently launching our beta programs to introduce that portal initiative to the major distributors.” Just named DIRECTV’s Dealer of the Year in the