Every three months? Seriously! you find every chance you get to bash.
How do you calculate? In dog years?
DISH Network Reports Second Quarter 2018 Financial Results
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Every three months? Seriously! you find every chance you get to bash.
How do you calculate? In dog years?
I appreciate the quarterly reports posted here, but due to the nature of the quarterly reporters, maybe we can give Bluegrass a sticky with a locked thread? Let’s face it, none of us are rubbing shoulders with the billionaires that built from scratch, and ATT has proven that any DIRECTion is possible. I personally think Dish is going to find themselves in bed with Amazon it Apple, or both. That would light the entire world on fire.
The lawyers had me get a bunch of patents on a product I developed.
My competitors were the two biggest chemical companies in the world.
The lawyers told me the patents only had one value and that was to get the competitors to sit down and talk to me if they decided to steal my ideas.
They went on to say that no way in hell could I go to court. The cost of walking through the court house door would be $250,000 (back in the 90's).
And that was just to open the door.
That is chump change for the big guys. They know they can smash you anytime they want, so talk, talk, talk, and accept any crumbs they want to leave you.
I was browsing the SEC Edgar file on the Dish 2nd Quarter 10Q and stumbled onto this little gem.
Did a search of the document for any other references and there were none.
"On July 30, 2018, we did not provide notice to renew our lease for the capacity of Ciel II. Accordingly, our lease for the capacity of Ciel II will expire in January 2019 at the conclusion of the initial term. There can be no assurance that the expiration of our lease for capacity of Ciel II will not have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition or otherwise disrupt our business."
Did a search of the document for any other references and there were none.
"On July 30, 2018, we did not provide notice to renew our lease for the capacity of Ciel II. Accordingly, our lease for the capacity of Ciel II will expire in January 2019 at the conclusion of the initial term. There can be no assurance that the expiration of our lease for capacity of Ciel II will not have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition or otherwise disrupt our business."
Ciel II is currently at 129? What else is there (or anywhere else for that matter) that could take up the slack?
I just posted this (with no details like yours) in another thread yesterday I think. It was in regards to rising internet cost and I was saying DISH should get off it's buns and do something with what it has to become a competitor. Many lf us have seen wireless internet service as the next big thing.
Isn’t 129 an integrel part of the Western Arc configuration? How could they go without that bird?
I mean, Eastern Arc is only 2 satellites, so I guess anything is possible..
I mean, Eastern Arc is only 2 satellites, so I guess anything is possible..
AFAIK it would take major changes to get all the channels on the western arc onto 110 and 119 if it would even be possible at all. It's already August now so they don't have an awful lot of time.
Maybe they have plans to float an Echostar satellite to 129?
Isn’t there a lot on 129 today?
I believe there’s a recent model spare up there, but they can’t use 129 as a location without leasing it.
And the wording is ambiguous. Did somebody forget, or was it a deliberate choice? Hard to believe somebody just forgot.
Surely this is not a negotiating ploy over price? I don’t think Canada can use the capacity, and there really is no other customer.
Record setting shift from MPEG-4 to HEVC in the works?
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I believe there’s a recent model spare up there, but they can’t use 129 as a location without leasing it.
And the wording is ambiguous. Did somebody forget, or was it a deliberate choice? Hard to believe somebody just forgot.
Surely this is not a negotiating ploy over price? I don’t think Canada can use the capacity, and there really is no other customer.
Record setting shift from MPEG-4 to HEVC in the works?
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AFAIK there's no other satellite parked at 129. I don't know whether they could use or rent the spot but not the satellite and frankly I have no idea what they're doing. They usually have a plan and it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
It's one of two things.
1:. They are negotiating with SES (the owner of ciel 2) for a lower lease fee and have not yet come to an agreement .
129 ku is an exclusive Canadian licensed satellite with Canadian ground control and Dish does not control the license. This is why they lease and can not move another satellite there without SES and Canadian approval.
2:. If at&t (DirecTV) has enough KA satellites for their needs, they might lease their 119 and 110 transponder frequencies to dish and they could duplicate the 2 satellite eastern arc.
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Other than the possibility it's just a negotiating tactic then somehow acquiring the capacity at 110 and 119 from AT&T is the only other thing that makes sense.
Thank you Nelson.
It might but it would probably take a lot longer than 6 months to replace all the old receivers that are still out there.
I was doing some counting on "the other site" and after a recent dish uplink, they are now putting 14 HD channels per transponder and in the process have already cleared out 4 transponders on 129 that were used for HD. There is another transponder on 129 used for EPG and a couple of SD channels and one for the 4k channel.
I wonder if Dish duplicates what they have done on EA on Western Arc. Dish removed most of the SD channels that they have HD channels for and put them on 77, and now 77 isn't always included with the new EA installs. Does Dish do the same thing by moving all the SD channels on 129 that have an HD channel and if they go away, so be it?
Western Arc still has QPSK for the spotbeams, so there is space to be made there. And of course the mpeg4 transition that was already mentioned.
So many things that we can think about!
Or, as was said, could just be a negotiating tactic and nothing changes.
DirecTV announced a couple of years ago that they were doing away with SD in 2019 and the satellites at 110 and 119 would no longer be necessary. If Dish could somehow get those transponders in time they'd have it made.
That would be wonderful. An all-HD experience. Wish Dish would do that
