Dish /T-Mobile

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So what will the new DISH cell service be called I wonder? If we stay with the Australian animal names.... Wombat cell company? Now where will DISH get retail shops to sell their phones now that they will have the Boost pre paid cell phones? That would mean a lot of rent every month to support the new sell company public retail stores. If only they had kept the Blockbuster stores they would have plenty of store fronts. Maybe Sprint , which won't exist anymore, will sell their leases to DISH since they won't need them .

Platypus?
Echidna?
Monotreme?

 

[ncted]

T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Makes Way For Dish Wireless

A $26 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint has been approved by a federal judge. That makes way for a Colorado-based company to become the next big wireless carrier.

denver.cbslocal.com

 

[dare2be]

Dish -> Bush

 

[navychop]

Wouldn’t it be a kick if Dish partnered with SpaceX on their network? Dish certainly has the customer facing side experience.

 

[JSheridan]

Wouldn’t it be a kick if Dish partnered with SpaceX on their network? Dish certainly has the customer facing side experience.

That would be a GREAT addition to the product line, if it all works as they say it's gonna.

 

[TheKrell]

Wouldn’t it be a kick if Dish partnered with SpaceX on their network? Dish certainly has the customer facing side experience.

What synergy do you see combining the two?

 

[ChadT41]

Elon does strange things. Who’d think bout Elon owning a solar company

 

[tanman]

T-Mobile has good coverage in most of New England (excluding Maine). I left T-Mobile for a family plan on AT&T, only because at the time AT&T and T-Mobile were planning a merger. If I only knew that wouldn't have gone through, I would have forced her to come to T-Mobile instead of me joining her at AT&T

T Mobile has very little(if any) coverage in Vermont also. ATT and Verizon dominate.
ATT benefitted by taking over all the Unicell towers in Vermont-Bernie helped with the deal because his nephew wanted an iphone which you could only get on ATT at that time.(I made that part up ).

 

[NYDutch]

What synergy do you see combining the two?

I could see a possible marketing partnership for Starlink. If not directly with Dish, then maybe on the E*/Hughes side of Charlie's house...

 

[Jon J]

Dish will get the prepaid low income and churn service from T-Mobile.

Because my cell needs are so limited I have been a pre-paid customer for many years. Not until today did I realize I should have been low income to qualify.

 

[navychop]

What synergy do you see combining the two?

Instant worldwide cell system for Dish. SpaceX doesn’t have to set up customer servicing.

 

[TheKrell]

Instant worldwide cell system for Dish. SpaceX doesn’t have to set up customer servicing.

I don't expect Ergen is contemplating building out a satellite phone system. Or are you intimating something else?

 

[navychop]

SpaceX is building out a LEO system called STARLINK. It is for Internet. Grafting cell service would be easier than it was for Iridium.

 

[TheKrell]

SpaceX is building out a LEO system called STARLINK. It is for Internet. Grafting cell service would be easier than it was for Iridium.

If you are responding to me, I'm still not following. Are you suggesting Dish Wireless will be a satellite phone and not a terrestrial cell phone network like the big boys? I sure hope Dish Wireless plans on a fiber backhaul, and not Starlink for that purpose.

 

[Phil T]

My 55+ plan with T-mobile as been great going on three years now. Over they years I had all three carriers and they all have a terrible signal in my neighborhood. AT&T and T-mobile gave me cell spots (microcell equipment). Also wi-fi calling makes it not a big deal.

 

[tanman]

My 55+ plan with T-mobile as been great going on three years now. Over they years I had all three carriers and they all have a terrible signal in my neighborhood. AT&T and T-mobile gave me cell spots (microcell equipment). Also wi-fi calling makes it not a big deal.

I wish ATT still sold microcells-half the time I have to remember to turn wifi calling back on after leaving the house and then returning on my Galaxy s7.My wife's Note 4 is even worse with wifi calling.Perhaps newer models are better.

 

[Yespage]

If you are responding to me, I'm still not following. Are you suggesting Dish Wireless will be a satellite phone and not a terrestrial cell phone network like the big boys? I sure hope Dish Wireless plans on a fiber backhaul, and not Starlink for that purpose.

Yeah, why in the world would Dish Wireless go from terrestrial 5G to slower Sat service?

 

[navychop]

LEO is far faster than GEO. Backhaul would be simplified. Latency would be on the order of 32 milliseconds to LEO, as opposed to 600 for GEO.

NOW, a handheld to LEO cell would be a different animal. But not as different as Iridium handsets.

 

[DishSubLA]

Wonder what DISH's future in 5G portends for the fate of the company's satellite TV business, as well as their low-cost streaming alternative Sling?
and how we now have voice activation via

Wonder what DISH's future in 5G portends for the fate of the company's satellite TV business, as well as their low-cost streaming alternative Sling?

I also wonder if we won't see DISH tie up with another company with deeper pockets that wants to get into the 5G business, like Comcast or Charter. Obvious synergies there, both in their wireless ambitions but also their legacy TV products.

What! Ergen team up with those scoundrels who seem not to like nor respect Ergen. On the other hand, Ergen does seem to have a relationship with Bob Iger (Disney), been kozy with Amazon (Jeff Bezos), and most recently Alphabet (parent to Google). It seems Amazon and Google have been given a lot of LOVE in recent times. Now, we can only do native voice control with Google Assistant and not Dish's previous licenesd voice control, and Google gets very high visability on Dish voice control marketing. I could see Alphabet/Google being interested in leasing some of Dish's spectrem for its (Google's) own use for whatever Googl's plans may be, perhaps providing wireless services to Google phones, or using Dish's 5G spectrum for Alphabet's Waymo driverless ride share service where the efficiencies and low latency of the 5G spectrum is KEY to driverless cars operating almost everywhere being a reality, or whatever else, and Alphabet could use its money to greatly accelearate the construction of the network because it would be good for Alphabet/Google. That would still be providing competition to the big wireless companies even if it only via leasing out his spectrum to others for wireless service while Dish operates and works on the 5G spectrum.

It seems Dish is really interested in 5G non-consumer, enterprise business, and not being a traditional wireless carrier selling phones and plans, etc.

 

[rvvaquero]

It seems Dish is really interested in 5G non-consumer, enterprise business, and not being a traditional wireless carrier selling phones and plans, etc.

BINGO!!!