I'm surprised to not see this here... it was mentioned in a TV report on E* stock ... evidently, AT&T announced something to the effect that "if we were to buy [E*] it wouldn't be until the end of 2008".
I didn't read the thing that way... I took away from it they weren't going to decide on which satellite carrier to continue the partnership with. They'll wait till 2H 2008 to decide if they drop either the Dish or Directv relationship.
I think the possibility of buying is a separate issue being looked at by different groups.
That doesn't stop people from questioning how he runs his business though.... The way I see it, he's pretty damn successful and he must have done a few billion things right.Heck, he's a multi-billionaire.
Who knows? If he plays his cards right, the hardware division of E* as a separate company could conceivably sell receivers to both DBS providers. It would make a merger that much easier... Isn't speculation fun?Maybe he is just going to wait for Sirius and XM to merge and then try the merger stuff again using the same grounds they used to get the govt to go along.
Lets just hope Charlie gets his head out of his butt and gets some buckets to empty out his leaking ship before it sinks.
Dish Network - the company that is patiently waiting for its satellites to actually be launched.
What everyone in the Forums want is E* to add more channels.
What has prevented that is Launch Failures - something that is really impossible to do anything about.
I wonder if people want a new E* advertising campaign:
It's a nice thought and unless Charlie has already worked out this plan with D*, it will never happen. Echostar is, and always will be, regardless of what some "paperwork" states, part of Dish Network. D* won't support their only competitor. Ask Delphi how their plans to supply parts to Ford and Chrysler worked out....If he plays his cards right, the hardware division of E* as a separate company could conceivably sell receivers to both DBS providers.
Yeah I don't think it will happen due to AT&T is going to be spending billions on getting their own TV Service. But you never know but with all the things that AT&T doing lately about getting their TV Service up and running I think Dish is last thing on their minds.
You usually sell your stock when you feel that it has reached a high point, will soon go down in price or you need the money. It could be that some higher ups exercised a stock option and sold some stock to pay for the transaction. You usually get a better price for your stock in a buyout than selling it on the market.What about all the higher ups selling their stock? My nephew states they do this every year at this time, but in the Denver post there was an article about them selling stock for lots of money. Maybe Att is going to buy them
Maybe he is just going to wait for Sirius and XM to merge and then try the merger stuff again using the same grounds they used to get the govt to go along.
Like I said, speculation is fun, but is rarely realistic. Though, if DISH were to be sold off, whether to AT&T or another entity, I guess that Charlie's competitors would be companies more like Motorola and Cisco/SA rather than D*.It's a nice thought and unless Charlie has already worked out this plan with D*, it will never happen. Echostar is, and always will be, regardless of what some "paperwork" states, part of Dish Network. D* won't support their only competitor. Ask Delphi how their plans to supply parts to Ford and Chrysler worked out....