Echostar prepares potential bankruptcy filing

[HipKat]

The lack of subscribers currently masks their poor spectrum holdings. If they were to really take off I don't see how the network could hold up under any sort of stress. With the small amounts of low band n71 and n29 for range, speeds would be barley usable at a distance. I think they only have 5 or 10 MHz of each in most markets. n70 and n66 can give you a few hundred megabits, but in highly crowded areas that may not cut it they get a huge influx of subscribers. and when on AT&T and T-Mobile, I would assume they are deprioritized.

So bad that Elon wants it bad enough to try and use the FCC against Dish to get it

 

[EarDemon]

Dish's mid band offerings are pretty weak and pathetic compared to the massive amount of n41 T-Mobile has and the massive amount of n77 c-band Verizon has. And to a lesser extent, the combo of c-band and DoD AT&T has, hope that 50 MHz of 4.9 n79 AT&T is poised to get makes a huge difference.

Shouldn't even be having this discussion. If the FCC had any sort of backbone they would have forced Dish to give up their spectrum for sitting on it for so long. Dish's n71 should go to T-Mobile, and the other three bands should be put up for auction. Not sure if it's true or not but supposedly Dish has licenses for mmWave that they still have yet to deploy anywhere. If that the case, they should lose it.

I fail to see how in any reality Boost is in any way, shape or form competitive or will be competitive with the other three. They are the new US Cellular.