Dish Growing Menu of Smart Home Services
On June 6, Dish confirmed for online publications FierceCable, smartbrief.com and others that it intends to expand Dish Smart Home Services to include home-automation services that allow the home owner...
View ArticleDish Likely to Partner with Wireless Carrier
An August 16 Reuters report suggests that Dish Network will likely find a wireless network partner to assist its entry into the mobile broadband market place. Dish filed an application to build out a...
View ArticleDish Takes Aim at Unconnected Rural Americans
In a September 27 press release, Dish, the nation’s second largest direct satellite program distributor, announced an expansion to its services. Beginning October 1, Dish will begin offering dishNET a...
View ArticleDish Chairman May Have to Sell Spectrum
Speaking at the Personal Communications Industry Association’s (PCIA) 2012 Wireless Infrastructure Show this week, Dish Network Chairman Charles Ergen said that the company may sell its wireless...
View ArticleDISH Network’s High-Speed Wireless Plans Gain FCC Approval
The FCC has approved DISH Network’s request to adapt its satellite spectrum for wireless use. DISH had asked for an FCC waiver that would allow the company to use 40 MHz of spectrum in the 2 GHz band...
View ArticleDish Attempts to Buy Clearwire from Under Sprint
On January 8, Dish Network presented an offer outbidding Sprint for all outstanding shares of Clearwire. DISH offered to acquire all of Clearwire’s common stock for $3.30 per share, but as announced on...
View ArticleClearwire Takes $80 Million from Sprint, Possibly Signaling the End of the...
Clearwire announced that it will draw $80 million in financing under the terms of its agreements with SprintNextel Corp., rejecting the bid from satellite TV provider DISH Network Corp. Announced in...
View ArticleDISH Muscles SoftBank with Sprint Bid
Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) today made an unsolicited offer of $25.5 billion for Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S). The offer bests Japanese SoftBank Corp. by $5.4 billion. The offer includes a mix of cash...
View ArticleDish Tests 50 Mbps LTE
Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) announced last week that it has achieved speeds of 50 Mbps in LTE testing. Using 2.5 GHz BRS spectrum at 2496-2690 MHz, Dish explained that weather-proof outdoor antennas,...
View ArticleWill the Last Pay-TV Subscriber Please Turn Off the Set?
While things are hardly as dire for the pay-TV industry as my title might suggest, subscription numbers for the first quarter of 2015 are far from rosy. In fact, net pay-TV adds were the lowest they’ve...
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