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DTV could be a good investment if cheap enough. C. could use the combined (remaining) customer base to negotiate lower programming rates, and just play it (& DiSH) out to wherever their ends are whilst growing his mobile base.

I'm not much concerned about my TV, in the greater scheme. I have DiSH and a 722k and that's all I need from DiSH

So cable is unconnected TV and streaming is connected TV (CTV)....

But it wasn't supposed to work that way. The spectrum was to be utilized, not simply held as some kind of appreciating asset to eventually sell on. The only thing that makes this remotely kosher would be that echo/boost is effectively entering into a joint arrangement with musk whereby it will...

This simply, if that word can be used, adds satellite to Boost, in similar or same manner as with, what is it, T-Mobile?, now advertising cell service with sat. So I would guess that in a way, even though the spectrum is sold, charlie's still employing it by continuing with boost including using...

Their press release says they had envisioned using the spectrum for satellite all along? And yet did nothing that would deploy it from space until now selling to elon musk to do it? And this is all legal because musk is a friend of the president....

this is even worse than dish when that was at its worst

I had a couple customers with dishplayers and I really loathed that thing. Not all that good at internet and downright crappy as a sat receiver. Just very offputting to operate, especially for a servicer. I guess the idea was to marry the new internet thing with the old TV thing, but it wasn't a...

What a frootloop. Enough to give you TDS.

I find newer content generally less watchable. Really, most of this crap I wonder how people can watch it, let alone enjoy it as they say they do.

So now they've gone down to offering a day-by-day service on Sling, only to have it help speed up their DBS demise.

So, I've recently been checking out the Sling Freestream app and have found quite a bit of 'limited" content such as a watered-down version of Fox News that apparently has its own production separate from the regular channel (and it always seems to be what the app starts you out on.). But have...

So this seems to tell me that DiSH is undercutting DiSH Boost Mobile locations with their own direct-to-subscriber Boost marketing at lower rates. Very familiar, this is essentially what they did to the dealers instead of making referrals to them. Their whole mantra was just get activations, the...

So they do this as a go-to-home service? Isn't all of that usually done at a retail location? Are they thinking such service will be a marketing advantage over the big fellas? If there's need for tech help once on the service, will there be in-home service calls for that? Will people expect or...

Why is someone at your home for mobile service?

What does a "Dish Boost Installer" do, and what does a "Boost Dish technician" do...?

Wouldn't they just love that. I remember when DTV got ST (in the 90s if memory serves) and they just couldn't activate subscriptions quick enough. I can pass on the CTE League.

Right, for the ones that weren't so solidly designed and thus flexed. I seem to recall claim made that buttonhook blocks more signal than struts, because it's blocking some of the reflected (magnified) signal rather than some of the ambient signal (before reaches the dish). But yes, far more...

I never had any issue with the buttonhook as it's very solid, sliding into a tube welded to the faceplate of the center compression hub. Somehow looked better to me than the 4 struts as well. Also with the low f:d ratio it's fairly short.

Tonight I saw a Cubs game on in a bar, evidently on the Marquee channel, the Cubs' own answer to YES, and there's of course a crawl going full time at the bottom, frequently reminding to "get the app or go to marquee.com, and call your provider to watch." :confused: It's "either, or", right...

But that's actually backward- they've only been hanging onto so many TV subs because they have them for broadband. So if they're losing more from broadband now than from TV, they're cratering. Competition like fiber is coming online in more of their areas.

As an originating DiSH dealer, I of course recall the rollout of DiSH 500. I digress, but you may have noticed that I type DiSH with a small "i"- as DiSH originally did. It stands for Digital Sky Highway, a takeoff on the Internet having been referred to as the "information superhighway"...

Well the gov't in its wisdom decided that the "airwaves" which, per the 1934 Communications Act, "belong to the people," are better sold off to the highest industrial bidder as long as he uses them to commercial gain. I don't remember if or what "collatoral" gov't may have req'd of bidders in...

Unless I completely misunderstood things, C had to put the spectrum to gainful work by a deadline or lose it altogether- not be paid back for having it taken back. What would be the risk in that? He could then drag out using it without real penalty. Gov't wants both its $ as well as the spectrum...

Not a law, but effectively so. A contractual obligation. Absolutely he cannot simply sell any of the spectrum, that was rule 1 of the auctions, no reselling. Also he has to make commercially effective use of the spectrum by certain deadlines (which are now passing) or surrender it without...