Analyst: Dish could gain in T-Mobile Sprint Merger
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WOW, DISH, could even spark a call from Verizon! Can you hear me now.
WOW, DISH, could even spark a call from Verizon! Can you hear me now.
I’d be Ok with Verizon-Dish
I’d be Ok with that too, except that Tmo doesn’t work in all the places I need it to. With Verizon, I know that if someone’s calling me, I can be sure my phone will ring 99.9% of the time wherever I am. In the past week Verizon actually added 2 new towers along the interstate I drive often. I don’t think Tmo or Sprint have added any new towers in years
That’s the point. With Dish, I think they’d roll out more, faster.
My 6+ doesn’t have band 25 or 71. So I do lose signal sometimes, even in Fairfax VA. But I still have a signal near Falling Waters WV. Voice, not really data. Since my wife has band 25 and better signal there, I hotspot off of her. I can deal with that for another year.
But if Apple came out with a 25 & 71 in a few months at a price I could stomach, I’d upgrade, and give my 6+ to my MiL, who has been lusting after it.
If somehow Apple does not offer a reasonable 25 & 71 band phone by spring 2019, I’ll be seriously shopping Android. Not likely. By end of 2018, or spring 2019, I expect the T-Mobile 600 MHz band 71 to be pretty widespread. Twice the range. I can deal with that.
My 6+ doesn’t have band 25 or 71. So I do lose signal sometimes, even in Fairfax VA. But I still have a signal near Falling Waters WV. Voice, not really data. Since my wife has band 25 and better signal there, I hotspot off of her. I can deal with that for another year.
But if Apple came out with a 25 & 71 in a few months at a price I could stomach, I’d upgrade, and give my 6+ to my MiL, who has been lusting after it.
If somehow Apple does not offer a reasonable 25 & 71 band phone by spring 2019, I’ll be seriously shopping Android. Not likely. By end of 2018, or spring 2019, I expect the T-Mobile 600 MHz band 71 to be pretty widespread. Twice the range. I can deal with that.
I would be okay with a Dish/Charter merger. Then I could bundle my Dish TV service with my Spectrum internet. 
I would be okay with a Dish/Charter merger. Then I could bundle my Dish TV service with my Spectrum internet.
Only if Dish takes over the TV part of it. Spectrum TV is terrible, at least in former TWC markets. Having a Hopper3 with a cable connection might not be bad though.
Agreed. (I am a former Time Warner Cable customer.) That is why we only got internet and phone service from Spectrum this time.
Hey comfortably_numb, if you haven't already seen the recent episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver about Economic Development, you might find it interesting.
Hey comfortably_numb, if you haven't already seen the recent episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver about Economic Development, you might find it interesting.
Which episode?
I forget which week it was from, but I think the title of the episode is "Economic Development." He talks about the Kansas City area for part of that segment, and I thought of your posts when I watched it.
Dish Plans to Launch a Wireless Service 30 Days After Closing Sprint T-Mobile Merger With 5G Coming in 2020
As the T-Mobile and Sprint merger case continues in court this week, Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen testified in support of the merger.
Ergen shared that he has letters from three banks, offering $10 billion in funding for Dish to launch a new wireless network. The letters show that the banks are “highly confident” that the money could be lent for the project. Ergen commented that the letters were not commitments and that no action would be taken before learning the official outcome of the trial.
As part of an agreement between Dish and authorities, the company would have to pay $2 billion in penalties and give up its wireless licenses if they don’t create a wireless network after a merger.
Dish Plans to Launch a Wireless Service 30 Days After Closing Sprint T-Mobile Merger With 5G Coming in 2020 - Cord Cutters News
As the T-Mobile and Sprint merger case continues in court this week, Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen testified in support of the merger.
Ergen shared that he has letters from three banks, offering $10 billion in funding for Dish to launch a new wireless network. The letters show that the banks are “highly confident” that the money could be lent for the project. Ergen commented that the letters were not commitments and that no action would be taken before learning the official outcome of the trial.
As part of an agreement between Dish and authorities, the company would have to pay $2 billion in penalties and give up its wireless licenses if they don’t create a wireless network after a merger.
Dish Plans to Launch a Wireless Service 30 Days After Closing Sprint T-Mobile Merger With 5G Coming in 2020 - Cord Cutters News
I guess that explains the price increases to all packages, in spite of the loss of the regional sports networks. That $2 billion in penalties has to come from somewhere, and it sure isn't going to be from Charlie Ergen's wallet.
