Dish and Nokia will deploy a 5G SA core on AWS public cloud
A 5G standalone (SA) deal between Nokia and Dish Network marks the first deployment of 5G on the public cloud. The vendor intends to deploy its 5G SA Core for Dish on Amazon Web Services...
Dell Technologies and Dish have formed a strategic infrastructure agreement to support the latter’s Open RAN-based 5G network in the U.S.
Under this partnership, Dell Technologies will provide Dish with network and edge-compute infrastructure.
“By collaborating with Dell Technologies, we will have the hardware and software...
As Dish Network works to delay T-Mobile US' plans to sunset the former Sprint CDMA network on which many of Dish's Boost Mobile customers still rely, the Rural Wireless Association has joined with seven other groups in sending a letter to the Federal Communications...
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Dish Network will rely on Amazon Web Services as the foundation for its cloud-based 5G network, the two companies announced today.
Dish and AWS have signed a strategic collaboration agreement, the latest in a string of announcements from Dish as it gears up for...
American Tower and Dish Network Corporation have signed a master lease agreement through which the latter company may lease space on up to 20,000 American Tower communications sites.
Through the deal, Dish will secure access to American Tower’s U.S. portfolio of communications sites as it...
Dish will acquire Republic's 200,000 wireless customers
Earlier this week, Dish Network revealed plans to acquire Wi-Fi-first mobile virtual network operator Republic Wireless, a move that will transfer about 200,000 wireless customers over to Dish’s care. While the financial terms of the deal have not yet...
Dish has signed seven new tower deals to boost its nationwide 5G network infrastructure, the operator said in a release.
Dish, which is in the process of constructing a cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G wireless network, secured new tower agreements with Harmoni Towers, Mobilite, Parallel Infrastructure,...
The challenges of building a virtualized, software-driven network from scratch are real. On today’s podcast, Carrie Charles is joined by Dave Mayo, the Executive Vice President of Network Deployment at DISH Network. Dave talks about some of the challenges they’re facing and how they...
The ruling "will no doubt complicate our efforts, but it will not affect our resolve," says Ergen
The Federal Communications Commission has affirmed an earlier decision which found that two companies essentially posed as independent small businesses in order to receive discounted spectrum prices on...
Dish Networks has signed its first public infrastructure deal for its future 5G network, putting in place a multi-year anchor tenant agreement with Crown Castle to lease space on up to 20,000 communications towers across the U.S.
The agreement also covers fiber backhaul and...
Dish 5G won’t be live in a major market until Q3 2021
David Barden, managing director and senior telecommunications equity research analyst at Bank of America-Merill Lynch, on a third quarter earnings call last week asked Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen what we’ve all been...
Intel has signed a partnership with U.S. operator Dish Nework to supply virtualized RAN (vRAN) equipment for a standalone 5G deployment, the chipmaker said in a release.
As part of the deal, Intel’s 5G infrastructure technology will create the foundation for Dish’s greenfield 5G network.
The...
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iPhone 6 breaks...
The Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau has officially granted Dish Network until mid-2023 to meet build-out requirements for its AWS and lower 700 MHz spectrum holdings, although the March 2020 deadline for meeting build-out requirements in some of the spectrum has already passed....
Dish plans to build out its 5G network by 2023
Following “months of joint testing,” Nokia and Dish Network have entered an agreement in which Nokia’s cloud-native, standalone 5G Core software products will provide support in a number of areas including data management, device management...
VMware joins Altiostar, Fujitsu and Mavenir as Dish 5G network partners
Following multiple tests and onboarding procedures, Dish Network has officially selected VMware’s Telco Cloud platform to run as an underlying cloud platform and infrastructure layer to power the carrier’s open radio access network-based 5G...
Dish says it will offer SA 5G coverage to 70% of Americans by June 2023
Dish Network bulked up its new wireless business by acquiring Tucows' Ting Mobile assets, including its customers, who officially transferred to Dish over the weekend. Dish Network also chose Ting...
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SK Telecom launches...
Part 5: Dish's ambitions and how they played into the merger approval
The merger of T-Mobile US and Sprint recently cleared what was widely seen as the last major hurdle to a successful closing: U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero rejected the claims of a...
Boost Mobile founder Peter Adderton has put in an offer to buy the mobile virtual network operator back from the New T-Mobile, which must divest Boost and Sprint's other prepaid brands as part of required conditions to merge T-Mobile US with Sprint. However, Dish...
When it comes to spectrum, T-Mobile US could hardly have found a better fit than Sprint, according to analysis from Ookla on the spectrum position of the New T-Mobile.
Milan Milanovic, Ookla's technologist evangelist, said that particularly when it comes to PCS spectrum in major...
T-Mobile COO: Combined company will go after AT&T and Verizon "like they've never seen before"
Ahead of the company's quarterly earnings call, T-Mobile US got the go-ahead from the U.S. Department of Justice to merge with Sprint. While there are still some obstacles to overcome,...
T-Mobile US has reportedly reached a deal with Dish Network to divest assets that could be the thing that pushes the proposed merger with Sprint over the top -- but approval from the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division is still needed, according to published...
