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DirecTV to buy Dish DBS, reducing EchoStar’s debt load

EchoStar frames transaction in terms of debt reduction and strengthening its focus on wireless and satellite connectivity What can you get for a dollar these days? A satellite TV company, apparently—as long as you're willing to take on the billions in debt that come with...

Hughes, Boost Mobile carry out new test for US Navy

Hughes said the demo tested remote network orchestration, wide area network (WAN) resiliency as well as secure Radio Access Network (RAN) sharing Hughes Network Systems and Boost Mobile, both owned by EchoStar, said they successfully demonstrated multi-transport network management for the U.S. Navy. The demonstration, which...

EchoStar’s profits fall as its debts loom

$2 billion of EchoStar's debt comes due in November, but does not have the funds to pay EchoStar lost customers across all of its business segments—pay TV, broadband and wireless—during the second quarter of 2024, as the company works to refinance $2 billion in debt...

EchoStar opens Wyoming O-RAN test lab

EchoStar said that the new O-RAN facility is housed at the company's data center in Cheyenne EchoStar Corporation announced the launch of the Open RAN Center for Integration and Deployment (ORCID), a state-of-the-art Open RAN (O-RAN) testing and evaluation lab. The company said that the new...

Swisscom claims ‘pan-Europe’ IoT with satellite extension from EchoStar

Switzerland-based mobile operator Swisscom is working with French IoT stalwart Actility and Irish satellite IoT company EchoStar Mobile to expand its LoRaWAN IoT footprint across Europe. EchoStar Mobile will provide capacity to support direct sensor-to-satellite operations, and Actility will provide interworking functions between Swisscom’s...

Echostar accuses T-Mo of ‘anticompetitive’ acquisitions

EchoStar, which merged with Dish, wants a national spectrum screen of 25% Every other year, the Federal Communications Commission asks for input on the state of competition in the domestic communications market, to help inform a report to Congress. This year, EchoStar—now the parent company...

EchoStar, Mavenir, Qualcomm demo RedCap on Boost network

EchoStar, Mavenir and Qualcomm worked together to test 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) on the Boost Mobile Network, in a demonstration that the partners said was the first validation of 5G RedCap capabilities in an Open virtualized Radio Access Network (Open vRAN).  EchoStar said that integrating...

Accuver applauds EchoStar’s success in fulfilling FCC’s 5G buildout commitments for the Boost Mobile Network

June 3, 2024, Texas – Accuver, a leading provider of network optimization solutions, extends its heartfelt congratulations to EchoStar for the significant milestone of achieving the completion of a Nationwide Drive Test for the Boost Mobile Network, delivering on all 2023 FCC commitments in...

EchoStar gets DoD contract to provide 5G smart devices, services

EchoStar said that the estimated value of the program with all yearly options is up to $2.7 billion over 10 years EchoStar announced it has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract as part of the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command Spiral 4 wireless...

EchoStar continues to shed subscribers

EchoStar continued to lose customers across its mobile, broadband and pay-TV customer bases as a combined company following the acquisition of Dish Network—but its losses overall were less than at the same time a year ago. Compared to the year-ago period, retail wireless losses...

Hughes opens private 5G incubation center in Maryland

Hughes facility will serve as testing ground for private 5G solutions for enterprise and the U.S. Department of Defense EchoStar subsidiary Hughes Network Systems announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility and private 5G incubation center in Germantown, Maryland. The Hughes Manufacturing Facility (EXM) produces...

Satellite 2024: ‘We need orders of magnitude improvement’

WASHINGTON, DC—Satellite and cellular technologies are converging in 3GPP standards. New partnerships are being struck to provide services such as the ability to send text messages in areas where terrestrial mobile networks don't reach. What is the potential of satellite-cellular convergence? If there were...

EchoStar can’t secure funds to buy T-Mo’s 800 MHz; eyes NTN opportunity

EchoStar needs additional financing to pay debts coming due and plans to use its spectrum holdings as leverage The newly merged EchoStar needs to raise additional capital to pay debts due in the coming months, and is unlikely to be able to afford to exercise...

EchoStar shuffles spectrum licenses, hires firm to look at strategic alternatives

On the heels of the re-merging of EchoStar and Dish Network, EchoStar has transferred some of Dish's spectrum licenses to a new company entity for more "financing flexibility," and has also hired a financial firm to help it explore strategic alternatives. Investors sent EchoStar's stock...

Dish Wireless awarded $50 million for O-RAN test facility

ORCID will allow participants to test and validate their hardware and software solutions against an O-RAN network deployed by Dish Dish Wireless, which is now a subsidiary of EchoStar, was awarded a $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information...

EchoStar, Dish complete merger

Charlie Ergen's network companies are now officially one entity again, with EchoStar having completed its merger with Dish Network. The all-stock transaction was completed on December 31, via the mechanism of a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar merging with Dish Network. The Dish Network...

Ergen’s Echostar, Dish to re-combine

The combined company aims to 'create a global leader in terrestrial and non-terrestrial wireless connectivity' Fifteen years after Dish and Echostar were split into commercial satellite and satellite TV businesses, the two companies will re-combine in an all-stock deal to form a company that now...

Seven European IoT providers sign with EchoStar for LoRa-based satellite coverage

Seven IoT service providers in Europe have signed multi-year deals to develop and sell IoT solutions using EchoStar Mobile's satellite LoRa network. The customers are API-K, Cyric IoT, DalesLandNet, Dryad Networks, Galaxy1, ProEsys and Symes. They will use the service, offering satellite coverage in...

EchoStar Mobile launches pan-European LoRa-enabled IoT network

In May, EchoStar announced the launch of an early adopter program for pan-European LoRa -Enabled IoT service   EchoStar Mobile, which provides mobile satellite services and is a subsidiary of EchoStar, says it has deployed a pan-European LoRa-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) network. In a release, the...

Global IoT community set for jamboree LoRaWAN event in Paris (Sponsored)

The LoRa Alliance expects over 2,000 delegates in Paris next week (July 6-7) for the LoRaWAN World Expo, billed as its first global jamboree event for the LoRaWAN community, and the wider IoT market beyond. It is set to be, by some margin, the...