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Dish Network eyes broadband network
The goal: 30 million customers on 4G system, including high-speed Internet, satellite TV
By Andy Vuong
The Denver Post
POSTED: 08/24/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT
Dish Network wants to build a nationwide mobile-broadband network, revealing details about the strategy behind its recent deals for wireless spectrum in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission.
The network would seek to reach at least 30 million potential customers and use fourth-generation technology in which compatible devices are expected to launch commercially by 2014, according to analysts who reviewed the filing, made late Monday.
Dish plans to offer high-speed Internet access as a stand-alone service and as part of a bundle with its satellite-TV product, said Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker.
The FCC filing asks the agency to transfer to Dish-spectrum licenses currently assigned to TerreStar Networks, a bankrupt satellite company that offers wholesale wireless voice and Internet services via a hybrid satellite and ground-based network.
Douglas County-based Dish received bankruptcy-court approval to acquire TerreStar for nearly $1.4 billion in July. Dish has agreed to acquire a separate bankrupt wireless-spectrum holder called DBSD.
The filing also asks the FCC to allow Dish to use the spectrum to offer terrestrial-only broadband service. It states that Dish would continue to support TerreStar's hybrid cellphone service as well as offer terrestrial-only service.
"We are excited about the opportunity to put this nationwide spectrum to productive use for competitive and innovative mobile broadband services," Dish Network executive vice president Tom Cullen said in a prepared statement.
Dish said it would use Long Term Evolution Advanced technology. Verizon Wireless and other carriers are building 4G networks based on similar LTE technology.
Blockbuster, which Dish acquired this year, is expected to play a role in the network, Ryvicker said in a research note Tuesday.
Dish specifically notes in the FCC filing that it will use its "bricks-and- mortar network ... to facilitate the deployment of a new service."
Dish chairman Charlie Ergen has said the company would likely partner with an established wireless provider if it were to launch a mobile- broadband service.
A partnership with MetroPCS might make sense because the regional carrier "needs spectrum and has cash to build out the network," said BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk.
He said Dish has committed to reach 30 million potential subscribers over six years, basing his estimate on timeline references in the filing.
Specifically, Dish pointed to "buildout principles" in deals involving Sprint, which Piecyk said required the company to reach 15 million potential customers in four years and 30 million within six years.
Dish has about 14 million satellite- TV subscribers.
Andy Vuong: 303-954-1209, avuong@denverpost.com or twitter.com/andyvuong
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Dish Network eyes broadband network
The goal: 30 million customers on 4G system, including high-speed Internet, satellite TV
By Andy Vuong
The Denver Post
POSTED: 08/24/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT
Dish Network wants to build a nationwide mobile-broadband network, revealing details about the strategy behind its recent deals for wireless spectrum in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission.
The network would seek to reach at least 30 million potential customers and use fourth-generation technology in which compatible devices are expected to launch commercially by 2014, according to analysts who reviewed the filing, made late Monday.
Dish plans to offer high-speed Internet access as a stand-alone service and as part of a bundle with its satellite-TV product, said Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker.
The FCC filing asks the agency to transfer to Dish-spectrum licenses currently assigned to TerreStar Networks, a bankrupt satellite company that offers wholesale wireless voice and Internet services via a hybrid satellite and ground-based network.
Douglas County-based Dish received bankruptcy-court approval to acquire TerreStar for nearly $1.4 billion in July. Dish has agreed to acquire a separate bankrupt wireless-spectrum holder called DBSD.
The filing also asks the FCC to allow Dish to use the spectrum to offer terrestrial-only broadband service. It states that Dish would continue to support TerreStar's hybrid cellphone service as well as offer terrestrial-only service.
"We are excited about the opportunity to put this nationwide spectrum to productive use for competitive and innovative mobile broadband services," Dish Network executive vice president Tom Cullen said in a prepared statement.
Dish said it would use Long Term Evolution Advanced technology. Verizon Wireless and other carriers are building 4G networks based on similar LTE technology.
Blockbuster, which Dish acquired this year, is expected to play a role in the network, Ryvicker said in a research note Tuesday.
Dish specifically notes in the FCC filing that it will use its "bricks-and- mortar network ... to facilitate the deployment of a new service."
Dish chairman Charlie Ergen has said the company would likely partner with an established wireless provider if it were to launch a mobile- broadband service.
A partnership with MetroPCS might make sense because the regional carrier "needs spectrum and has cash to build out the network," said BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk.
He said Dish has committed to reach 30 million potential subscribers over six years, basing his estimate on timeline references in the filing.
Specifically, Dish pointed to "buildout principles" in deals involving Sprint, which Piecyk said required the company to reach 15 million potential customers in four years and 30 million within six years.
Dish has about 14 million satellite- TV subscribers.
Andy Vuong: 303-954-1209, avuong@denverpost.com or twitter.com/andyvuong
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30 million customers on 4G by 2014? Bahahaha! I just had to laugh after reading this "News" from the Dish Network shills. Too funny! 
Hmmm...let's see DISH/SATS have been buying failed (i.e., bankrupt) companies as part of their strategy to go after new markets. Well, at least they aren't doing nothing. Anyway, right now their video business is dying, much like the landline phone market, because the video market is saturated and so many others are doing it better and cheaper - mostly through offering discounted bundles and superior technology (such as FiOS). And let's not forget IPTV delivered content which is getting better all the time.
I'm sorry, but Dish is a day late and a dollar short, and their business strategy (parnering with MetroPCS and/or Sprint) is questionable and will require them to buy the farm on this venture. My prediction is that Verizon and AT&T will continue to grown all their markets: wireless, Internet and video, with as many as 15M combined hard-wired video customers in 2014; I also predict that when Verizon and AT&T LTE launches are in full-swing, they will be gobble up former D* and E* video customers faster than the Dish Network shills drink Kool-Aid.
I wish Dish/SATS well, but they are entering a market with no experience (Okay, I guess MetroiPCS and Sprint may count for something if they are willing to work with Dish) and will be taking on the big-boys with deep-pockets, who have experience and a business plan. Good luck with that 30-million 4G customer nonsense...
Hmmm...let's see DISH/SATS have been buying failed (i.e., bankrupt) companies as part of their strategy to go after new markets. Well, at least they aren't doing nothing. Anyway, right now their video business is dying, much like the landline phone market, because the video market is saturated and so many others are doing it better and cheaper - mostly through offering discounted bundles and superior technology (such as FiOS). And let's not forget IPTV delivered content which is getting better all the time.
I'm sorry, but Dish is a day late and a dollar short, and their business strategy (parnering with MetroPCS and/or Sprint) is questionable and will require them to buy the farm on this venture. My prediction is that Verizon and AT&T will continue to grown all their markets: wireless, Internet and video, with as many as 15M combined hard-wired video customers in 2014; I also predict that when Verizon and AT&T LTE launches are in full-swing, they will be gobble up former D* and E* video customers faster than the Dish Network shills drink Kool-Aid.
I wish Dish/SATS well, but they are entering a market with no experience (Okay, I guess MetroiPCS and Sprint may count for something if they are willing to work with Dish) and will be taking on the big-boys with deep-pockets, who have experience and a business plan. Good luck with that 30-million 4G customer nonsense...
30 million customers on 4G by 2014? Bahahaha! I just had to laugh after reading this "News" from the Dish Network shills. Too funny!
The problem is, they never said they would have 30 million customers, they said they could reach a potential 30 million subscribers.
To do that all they need is service in the top 20 cities and they are covered.
Their partnership would not be with sprint for 4g anyway, it would have to be with Clear as they handle Sprints 4g coverage now.
I really see dish going the route of Clear and offering 4g coverage not only for cell phones, but also strictly data services like Clear does now.
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You can see the pace of inflation / deflation here. It serves as the primary predictor for when the expect the eruptions, which coincide w/ inflation turning into significant deflation and last for several hours on average with significant fountaining.
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I have Dish with Hopper3. I choose to get local channels OTA and had a "guide list" established at my previous home. Having moved a few miles away, I wanted to update the list by appending a couple new stations via a rescan. As many would know, some stations come in with the UHF/VHF antenna aimed in one direction, while others come in better with a different direction.
Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.
It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list.
Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.
It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list.
Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
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