DISH Designates AWS-4 as Downlink; 3GPP Working Group Completes Band 70 to Integrate DISH Spectrum

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DISH Designates AWS-4 as Downlink; 3GPP Working Group Completes Band 70 to Integrate DISH Spectrum with AWS-3 Spectrum

• DISH files election with FCC to use AWS-4 spectrum (2000-2020 MHz) for downlink
• Band 70 to combine unpaired AWS-3, AWS-4, and H Block into a single efficient spectrum plan
• Asymmetric Band 70 emphasizes downlink, aligns with consumer broadband traffic trends

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) filed a letter with the FCC electing to use 20 MHz of AWS-4 uplink spectrum (2000-2020 MHz) for downlink operations, resulting in all 40 MHz of DISH's AWS-4 spectrum being designated for downlink operations. The FCCprovided DISH with the right to make this election in 2013.

http://investor.echostar.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=973872

 

[MikeD-C05]

Ok, Translation for everyone who has no fracking clue what that means please.

 

[Troch77]

Ok, Translation for everyone who has no fracking clue what that means please.

Allen sees the word "Dish",
and KABOOM....... Cut and paste.
Doesn't matter if he can explain his post and link lol.

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[mike123abc]

Essentially Dish has gotten a "standard" to match their spectrum holdings. That way they can get radio chipsets built to accommodate their holdings. While it is probably unlikely that this will go into a cell phone chip, it could go into a chipset aimed at fixed wireless broadband. It looks like Dish was not able to entice a cell phone carrier to rent their spectrum for cell phone use, but now perhaps they can use it for broadband to the home. Essentially in rural areas they should be able to compete very effectively with DSL, offering much faster service. It would be much harder to use in cities because they would need a lot of towers to accommodate a dense user population. But, in rural areas, they may be able to offer an affordable alternative to satellite/DSL.

 

[sundude90]

Dish still has tons of 700mhz spectrum, so I wonder what they are planning to use that for?


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[MikeD-C05]

Essentially Dish has gotten a "standard" to match their spectrum holdings. That way they can get radio chipsets built to accommodate their holdings. While it is probably unlikely that this will go into a cell phone chip, it could go into a chipset aimed at fixed wireless broadband. It looks like Dish was not able to entice a cell phone carrier to rent their spectrum for cell phone use, but now perhaps they can use it for broadband to the home. Essentially in rural areas they should be able to compete very effectively with DSL, offering much faster service. It would be much harder to use in cities because they would need a lot of towers to accommodate a dense user population. But, in rural areas, they may be able to offer an affordable alternative to satellite/DSL.

Thanks for the translation. Sounds like they are trying to use the spectrum for something now.

 

[Tampa8]

Allen sees the word "Dish",
and KABOOM....... Cut and paste.
Doesn't matter if he can explain his post and link lol.

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Ok, new Allen rule needed. If he posts a news headline/article he has to be able to explain it too or he can't post it.....

 

[Troch77]

Ok, new Allen rule needed. If he posts a news headline/article he has to be able to explain it too or he can't post it.....

Agree, most people would post a link that strikes them as Interesting, and they would like to comment about it, even explain what it's about.

While no one is denying the article doesn't have any interesting information, but normal people couldn't read this article and know exactly what the hell it's about.

That's the biggest issue with most of these link.
All these editors try and make things sound so professional, when in fact people don't read them when it's worded in" corporate snob" addition.

That multiple page article was summed up less than one paragraph by Mike.

Thanks Mike.


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[david_jr]

Essentially Dish has gotten a "standard" to match their spectrum holdings. That way they can get radio chipsets built to accommodate their holdings. While it is probably unlikely that this will go into a cell phone chip, it could go into a chipset aimed at fixed wireless broadband. It looks like Dish was not able to entice a cell phone carrier to rent their spectrum for cell phone use, but now perhaps they can use it for broadband to the home. Essentially in rural areas they should be able to compete very effectively with DSL, offering much faster service. It would be much harder to use in cities because they would need a lot of towers to accommodate a dense user population. But, in rural areas, they may be able to offer an affordable alternative to satellite/DSL.

Interesting, but I wonder how that would work in the mountains of the northeast. 800 MHz radio is very difficult here because you need a lot of transmitters due to the peaks and valleys. Would love an alternative to DSL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[odbrv]

What download and upload speeds would this technology allow at what price points. I have To pay $54 for radio broadband with 5 down and 1 up. Some folks who can see another tower can get 10 down and 2 up for about $10 more and 20 down and 4 up for an additional $10 to the 10 down price.

 

[DWS44]

If he posts a news headline/article he has to be able to explain it too or he can't post it

But will any of us be able to understand his explanation?

 

[Bobby]

But will any of us be able to understand his explanation?

Allen has trouble expressing himself in writing. His lack of sentence structure and punctuation make most of his stuff unreadable. We don't need him to try to explain anything. We simply need to allow him to pass along information and let us decipher what it means....

 

[Tampa8]

http://forums.solidsignal.com/content.php/5645-DISH-AWS-4-Press-Release-What-does-it-mean

 

[Mochuf]

Dish still has tons of 700mhz spectrum, so I wonder what they are planning to use that for?


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Charlie is going to sell it to make even more money.
It has to obvious by now that nobody wants to deal with him, so he'll eventually sell it because he can't meet the FCC deadlines. It really is BS that the FCC wants to steal more bandwith from OTA tv while Charlie is sitting on this spectrum and doing nothing with it.