What I think this means is that it's a step in the direction of a merger. Basically, the technical side of the business, the uplinks, the fiber network and the OTT platform went back to Dish. This smells like Charlie is in the process of finalizing a deal with a telecom player IE: Tmobile or Verizon, ect. He's about to pull an AT&T by having all of these assets as a part of the Dish brand. He can now sell the Dish brand with the technical capabilities to anyone who wants to bid on it. Mark this post. Go buy some Dish Stock. I would buy some Tmobile stock as well. From what John L (Tmobile) said at CES and Charlie is doing, this could be Charlie's play out of the DBS market into retirement and handing Dish off to someone who can do something good with it. Oh boy things are about to get interesting if this is how it all plays out!!!!
My speculation is that Tmobile is the bidder.