Recent content by nelson61

I was talking to a farmer at coffee a couple weeks ago. He contract raises young milk cows for the big milk farms. he was checking the status of each of his cows on his phone as we talked (several thousand miles from his operations). Each cow has a sensor inplant that generates continous...

Reaching 75 percent is a minor problem Rolling or offloading the billions in debt due this year is THE problem.

updated the satellite subscriber graph. The rate of subscriber loss is flattening.

The first quarter dirty details are available on the SEC EDGAR Web site https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1415404&owner=exclude

SpaceX has the Echostar 25 launch contract. 2026. EchoStar XXV. On March 20, 2023, we entered into a contract with Maxar Space LLC for the construction of EchoStar XXV, a DBS satellite that is capable of providing service to the continental United States (“CONUS”) and is intended to be used at...

As in burning

It does it automatic when signal is lost

Wow it works super. I guess one could call it hybrid streaming. or hybrid satellite. Now, if they made all the channels available for streaming and the H3 could record for delayed viewing, they would open up an entire new market. Customers would have the power, speed and best in class user...

I live in a concrete house with low outdoor cell strength. Like zip reception indoors . I bought an outdoor receive antenna and 3 booster antennas indoors from Wilson which provided excellent reception to cure the problem. https://www.wilsonsignalbooster.com/

As I recall, they had requested a 10 year extension and were denied. FCC gave them something like 2-3 years . Probably because of the age and station keeping issues.

BLOOMBERG: "Dish Network Corp., the satellite-TV provider saddled with more than $20 billion in debt and losing customers, has received financing offers from private credit firms, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Dish has fielded at least one proposal of more than $1 billion...

Definition of masochist is someone that repeats making major project changes during a holiday.

Netflix pulled ahead by deciding to be a "world" provider. Along with supporting production from around the world.

Echostar's dilemma is Charlie. He has majority control of the company and has had it like - forever. He likes being the shot caller and does not want to give up control. But, whomever puts money in, will want more control. Excepting for that issue, both the wireless, satellite, and tv business...