Dish Rumor

[Scott Greczkowski]

Ok guys take this one with a grain of salt... (aka its a rumor!)

I am hearing from a long time informant (who has been on the money a majority of the time) that Dish Network is looking to partner together with Verizon to sell Dish Network services in Verizon areas.

Now as we currently know Verizon is currently partnered with DirecTV.

This one is making me go hmm.

It will be interesting to see if this one pans out or not. But with that said Dish Network really needs a partner in a really bad way.

[Don Landis]

The best outcome of that partnership would be for Verizon Wireless to not debit my sling box bandwidth from the 5Gb / month limit. Wouldn't that be dandy, Scott?

[juan]

well i guess that means theywill be adding the YES network

[tomcrown1]

Dish will partner with apple to sell dish service over their new NET PAD or LAP TOP computer that will sell over the Verizon network in 2010-----rumor mill overtime except for the new class of portable computer due from apple next year it is all over the internet---Verizon is rumored to be selling this device as it will have a cell phone build in.

[boba]

Do I care Verizon can't even offer DSL never mind FIOS how is offering DISH going to benefit me a $5 bundling discount?

[kschwi]

well i guess that means theywill be adding the YES network

Does YES have some partnership with Verizon?

[Scott Greczkowski]

No but Verizon has a large coverage area in New York.

[riffjim4069]

Ok guys take this one with a grain of salt... (aka its a rumor!)

I am hearing from a long time informant (who has been on the money a majority of the time) that Dish Network is looking to partner together with Verizon to sell Dish Network services in Verizon areas.

Now as we currently know Verizon is currently partnered with DirecTV.

This one is making me go hmm.

It will be interesting to see if this one pans out or not. But with that said Dish Network really needs a partner in a really bad way.

On the surface, Verizon has absolutely no reason to partner with Dish Network since DirecTV fills that gap. However, now if Verizon could get a sweet deal by having EchoStar supply their set-top-boxes and DVRs in exchange for a reseller agreement for Dish Network service in non-FiOS territories...well, I think this could be a win-win situation for both parties.

Let me be clear...Dish Network needs Verizon more than Verizon needs Dish Network- the deal would have to make sense (i.g., dollars and cents) for Verizon. Personally, I would love to see the T2200S (aka Cable Ready 922) replace the less-than-stellar Motorola garbage used by Verizon. Although having a best HD DVR to go with their superior FiOS TV picture quality/value/reliability (same goes for FiOS Internet), the real value to Verizon would be the ability to sell add-on services using tru2way or other similar technology. As much as I love FiOS, you just know Verizon is going to charge a few bucks each month to enable the slingloaded capabilities of the T2200S.

Again, Verizon has little to gain by entering a reseller partnership with Dish Network so EchoStar will have to come to the table with something special; that something special could be a superior HD DVRs and set-top-boxes at very attractive prices. I probably shouldn't get too excited at this point since this is still a long-shot. We shall see...

[whatchel1]

On the surface, Verizon has absolutely no reason to partner with Dish Network since DirecTV fills that gap. However, now if Verizon could get a sweet deal by having EchoStar supply their set-top-boxes and DVRs in exchange for a reseller agreement for Dish Network service in non-FiOS territories...well, I think this could be a win-win situation for both parties.

Let me be clear...Dish Network needs Verizon more than Verizon needs Dish Network- the deal would have to make sense (i.g., dollars and cents) for Verizon. Personally, I would love to see the T2200S (aka Cable Ready 922) replace the less-than-stellar Motorola garbage used by Verizon. Although having a best HD DVR to go with their superior FiOS TV picture quality/value/reliability (same goes for FiOS Internet), the real value to Verizon would be the ability to sell add-on services using tru2way or other similar technology. As much as I love FiOS, you just know Verizon is going to charge a few bucks each month to enable the slingloaded capabilities of the T2200S.

Again, Verizon has little to gain by entering a reseller partnership with Dish Network so EchoStar will have to come to the table with something special; that something special could be a superior HD DVRs and set-top-boxes at very attractive prices. I probably shouldn't get too excited at this point since this is still a long-shot. We shall see...

I can't agree w/ this. Since it will take years for FIOS to be available throughout the entire US. It makes sense for Verizon to want to have a provider of satellite across the entire area that they cover. Maybe they can't get a deal worth beans anymore from Directv.

[self.inflicktd]

I don't know, it makes sense but it doesn't.

Didn't Dish just lose AT&T to D*? Kind of strange that Directv would gain and then lose.