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Dish Network unplugs the Joey (RCR Mobile Minute)

by Martha DeGrasse
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Dish Network is giving a new meaning to the term “cord cutter” with its latest pay TV innovation: a set-top box that connects to the Dish Hopper via superfast 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Dish is the first pay TV company to offer 802.11ac but it is not the first to offer a wireless set-top box. DirecTV, which AT&T plans to buy, has a wireless set-top box on the market, as does AT&T itself.
Joey is the name Dish uses for its set-top box, so the new box is of course called the wireless Joey. It costs $50, and each Joey client is an additional $7.00. The $50 access point can support up to three clients.
In other Wi-Fi news, carriers in the UK may be leapfrogging U.S. carriers when it comes to Wi-Fi calling. For more on that see today’s video below. 		Other top stories:
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Martha DeGrasse is the publisher of Network Builder Reports (nbreports.com). At RCR, Martha authored more than 20 in-depth feature reports and more than 2,400 news articles. She also created the Mobile Minute and the 5 Things to Know Today series. Prior to joining RCR Wireless News, Martha produced business and technology news for CNN and Dow Jones in New York and managed the online editorial group at Hoover’s Online before taking a number of years off to be at home when her children were young. Martha is the board president of Austin's Trinity Center and is a member of the Women's Wireless Leadership Forum.

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