EchoStar Announces Spectrum Sale and Commercial Agreement with SpaceX

[John2021]

Makes perfect sense to me.

For well of a decade Dish has been playing the cellular game with little to nothing to show for it up until the past few years. Now two real companies will be taking full advantage of what Charlie and co. could not do.

Dish Wireless was a failure, waste of time and resources and the spectrum will be put to much better use now that Dish Wireless and gone and is being decommissioned. Exactly 0 subscribers had access to Dish's DoD spectrum, in the next year or two well over 100 million people will have access to it, thanks to AT&T.

by the time charlie would have had his network built out. we would be in 6G or even 7G . i heard people say the handoff's from tower to tower sucked as well the phones dropped. and no support for LTE!!!

 

[NYDutch]

for us it's having all of our channels in one place and not having to fumble around with multiple apps to find our channels... how much will the package go up once the deals are gone. i am sure that dish will give more deals once the two years is up if you threaten to cancel since there losing subs left and right...

I turn our TV on and either scroll through Firestick's combined app listings to find something to watch or press a button and ask it to go to what I know I want to watch. Not a lot different than using the Dish remote, just a lot lower cost. I'm not getting any deals right now, so that's not a factor. And as an "Outdoor" account holder on Dish, I didn't get any deals there either.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I still don't get why people are saying Boost is going away. Its not. They only sold off a small part of their spectrum.

They are working on some things with SpaceX and it would not surprise me to see Boost as the prefered carrier of SpaceX.

Only thing I know they are shutting down is their beta project known as Project Genesis. Everything else will continue to go and in some cases even expanding.

 

[EarDemon]

the one thing i like about AT&T. is it's truly unlimited high speed data!!! ( IF you pay for that plan!!! )

You mentioned this before in another thread a while back. You do realize both Verizon and T-Mobile have unlimited premium data on 2 out of 3 of their respective mainstream unlimited plans, right? And AT&T only has it on their top plan, the middle plan is 75 GB before you are subject to deprioritization.

AT&Ts top two unlimited plans are arguably the weakest of the three carriers

 

[EarDemon]

Dish Wireless is going away, the Boost brand will live.

Of course it's going away. Why would you think it wouldn't be? Out of the deployed spectrum, n71 is going to AT&T, n70 and n66 are going to Starlink. That is pretty much the entire deployed network. AT&T is getting the never been deployed n79.

What's left, some never deployed mmWave and other scraps.

To those that are in denial, riddle me this. How can you have a 5G network when you have sold off all of your deployed 5G assets?

Why are some Boost subscribers no longer able to connect to the native Dish Wireless network? Why I haven't I been able to connect to the native Dish Wireless network since I became a subscriber last week?

 

[dishdude]

I can't think of anything Dish could add to a Hopper 4 that would entice me to return to paying about double what I'm paying for streaming.

And this is ultimately Dish's biggest issue. The service is great, the equipment is great but there's a major lack of content and a lot of it is being shifted to streaming services.