{"id":61971,"date":"2019-07-26T20:26:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dish-is-now-a-us-wireless-carrier\/"},"modified":"2019-07-26T20:26:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:26:05","slug":"dish-is-now-a-us-wireless-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dish-is-now-a-us-wireless-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Dish is Now a US Wireless Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dish Network<\/strong> will enter the U.S. wireless market as the fourth nationwide facilities-based network competitor. Dish reached agreements with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, <strong>T-Mobile<\/strong>, and <strong>Sprint<\/strong>&nbsp;to complete this transformative transaction. Additionally, Dish has committed to the <strong>Federal Communications Commission<\/strong> (FCC) that DISH will deploy a facilities-based 5G broadband network capable of serving 70 percent of the U.S. population by June 2023, and has requested that its spectrum licenses be modified to reflect those commitments. This agreement comes after a report published earlier this week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following completion of the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile, Dish will: Acquire Sprint\u2019s prepaid businesses and customers, including <strong>Boost Mobile<\/strong>, <strong>Virgin Mobile<\/strong>, and the Sprint-branded prepaid service; acquire 14 Megahertz (MHz) of Sprint\u2019s nationwide 800 MHz spectrum; access the new T-Mobile network for seven years, including the ability to serve DISH customers between T-Mobile\u2019s nationwide network and Dish\u2019s new independent 5G broadband network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese developments are the fulfillment of more than two decades\u2019 worth of work and more than $21 billion in spectrum investments intended to transform Dish into a connectivity company,\u201d said Dish Co-Founder and Chairman Charlie Ergen. \u201cTaken together, these opportunities will set the stage for our entry as the nation\u2019s fourth facilities-based wireless competitor and accelerate our work to launch the country\u2019s first standalone 5G broadband network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the broader work of both the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice in facilitating competition in the U.S. wireless industry, Ergen said: \u201cThe FCC and the DOJ are to be credited for laying the groundwork for an innovative 5G wireless ecosystem that will introduce new opportunities to American consumers and businesses, while enhancing competition in the wireless industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dish\u2019s proposed asset acquisitions from Sprint are valued at approximately $5 billion, including a $1.4 billion purchase of Sprint\u2019s prepaid businesses, and a $3.6 billion agreement to purchase Sprint\u2019s nationwide 800 MHz wireless spectrum. The spectrum purchase is expected to be completed three years after the closing of the acquisition of the prepaid businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dish Network will enter the U.S. wireless market as the fourth nationwide facilities-based network competitor. Dish reached agreements with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, T-Mobile, and Sprint&nbsp;to complete this transformative transaction. Additionally, Dish has committed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that DISH will deploy a facilities-based 5G broadband network capable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}