DISH to Become National Facilities-based Wireless Carrier

[navychop]

Well said.


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[mdram]

I don't understand the dissenters. What is happening here and what the potential is, is game changing.

Imagine, all those rural areas that have had to suffer with slow, or expensive data capped Satellite or no internet at all, now having access to 5G - up to 6 Gb/s d/l speeds, with embedded video and cell service.
Imagine, no more bulky, damaging, unsightly dishes on roofs. Imagine, no more Line Of Sight Issues. Imagine no more rain fade.
Imagine an IoT Network that ties home connectivity into a single entity.
Imagine all those people like me, who stay in the city because of a need for high speed internet, moving out to the country, bringing our spending power with us to smaller, struggling towns.
Imagine Dish using existing infrastructure and builds out their own towers in areas that presently lack reliable cell service.

This is what I see and makes me damn glad I represent a company that's moving into the future. Investing in new technologies. Having the foresight to see where the future is taking us and being a part of it, not depending on the same old products like other providers do.

us rural customers know that we will be the last to get service, there are not enough people in a concentrated area for a goo ROI.
and 5gmm wave does not travel far, you need the mm wave if you want that high speed of 6gb/s
the best we will see for a while may be better than 3g, up to current lte.

 

[osumike]

us rural customers know that we will be the last to get service, there are not enough people in a concentrated area for a goo ROI.
and 5gmm wave does not travel far, you need the mm wave if you want that high speed of 6gb/s
the best we will see for a while may be better than 3g, up to current lte.

I wouldn't assume that. Also, what other company is actively working to bring you high speed internet?

 

[mdram]

I wouldn't assume that. Also, what other company is actively working to bring you high speed internet?

so your assuming they will build for the least populated areas, and not worry about the ROI?

some rural electric coops are actually investing in fiber for thier customers
hopefully it becomes more widespread.
att started a high speed rural program a while back, no clue on its build out
some people picked up the verizon prepaid unlimited hotspot before they ditched it.

being one of those rural customers i look into this periodically

 

[NYDutch]

Particularly for rural Internet, I think Starlink, OneWeb, etc., may be the more realistic widespread options.

 

[osumike]

so your assuming they will build for the least populated areas, and not worry about the ROI?

some rural electric coops are actually investing in fiber for thier customers
hopefully it becomes more widespread.
att started a high speed rural program a while back, no clue on its build out
some people picked up the verizon prepaid unlimited hotspot before they ditched it.

being one of those rural customers i look into this periodically

And how is any of that going to compare to Dish's 5g?

 

[mdram]

And how is any of that going to compare to Dish's 5g?

its actually happening.

 

[JSheridan]

Particularly for rural Internet, I think Starlink, OneWeb, etc., may be the more realistic widespread options.

You took the words right out of my keyboard.

Hopefully the LEO systems will live up to their hype.

 

[HipKat]

so your assuming they will build for the least populated areas, and not worry about the ROI?

some rural electric coops are actually investing in fiber for thier customers
hopefully it becomes more widespread.
att started a high speed rural program a while back, no clue on its build out
some people picked up the verizon prepaid unlimited hotspot before they ditched it.

being one of those rural customers i look into this periodically

I see that here, too, that Fiber is being laid by Co-ops. That's the way to go and I applaud them for servicing areas that have unfairly suffered with access to high speed data, which to me, is almost as important as any other utility now. I like to think that part of the thinking going into this is having all those towers in place so Dish can set their towers in areas that don't have access now. Hopefully, anyway. I guess we'll see

 

[bobvick]

so your assuming they will build for the least populated areas, and not worry about the ROI?

some rural electric coops are actually investing in fiber for thier customers
hopefully it becomes more widespread.
att started a high speed rural program a while back, no clue on its build out
some people picked up the verizon prepaid unlimited hotspot before they ditched it.

being one of those rural customers i look into this periodically

I have gigabit fiber from my rural electric coop. It is great, only had access to 4Mpbs down DSL before.

 

[mdram]

I have gigabit fiber from my rural electric coop. It is great, only had access to 4Mpbs down DSL before.

i talked to my coop about it, they said they were searching for a partner, they already have fiver in place for meter reading, but want someone to do the connections, ect. maybe someday.
its @ 300ft from my front door, with no way to tie into it

 

[Juan]

Isnt that like driving down a highway moving from tower to tower trying to watch streaming video?

You took the words right out of my keyboard.

Hopefully the LEO systems will live up to their hype.

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[navychop]

I believe someone posted here some calculations that show LEO May not provide quite as much speed and volume as we hope. Not too many years and we will know.

5G will not have the LEO coverage, but for the select few, it may be nice.


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[NYDutch]

Isnt that like driving down a highway moving from tower to tower trying to watch streaming video?

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My wife regularly streams programming to the bedroom TV in our motorhome while we're on the road. Sometimes we hit a poor signal area that causes excessive buffering, but that's pretty rare when we're running on the Interstates. Most of the time the tower transitions are seamless.

 

[Tampa8]

I get the skepticism of this given the many go and stops of it over the years. And of course the DISH Soon™. But I can't stress enough the backing of the FCC for a fourth carrier and expectations of 5G tell me this is going to happen. And the need for DISH to get into this business even including for their own transmission of data, programming etc.
We don't know the exact applications whether consumer, business, both etc. But I'm not seeing much pushback anywhere on this actually happening in the business news.

 

[Tampa8]

And I take John Legere's glowing remarks that this will work for DISH and they will become competition with a grain of salt. He might believe that, but he also has a tremendous need for the FCC to believe that...

 

[Claude Greiner]

Building a 5g network from the ground up is a waste at this point.

First of all 4G coverage seems to work just fine on my mobile device and I seem to get pretty decent coverage right now with Verizon.

Yea 5g is nice, but for cellular it’s really not necessary. There was a difference going from 2g, 3g and eventually 4g but I don’t see much improvement going to 5g especially considering the technology today is requiring less bandwidth.

The longer it takes for Charlie to build this apparent 5g network, the more we will see fiber deployed to homes.

For 5g to be profitable it needs to be used as a replacing for home internet service. It’s not happening in the urban areas and there are not enough customers in the rural areas to turn a decent profit.

THIS ALL SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED 9 YEARS AGO.

If Dish would have done this when they should have, they would be in a very good position right now.

Again this is all a big bluff on the part of Charlie. When the right deal comes along he won’t be building any wireless network and be laughing all the way to the bank.

The only flaw with my logic I can’t see the man retiring

 

[Claude Greiner]

Oh yeah and even if Charlie tries to do anything, Death Star and Verizon will crush him like a bug.

 

[Tampa8]

Well at least that is an unbiased take on it...

 

[Juan]

Unless you are a gamer.....buffering should handle the transistion

My wife regularly streams programming to the bedroom TV in our motorhome while we're on the road. Sometimes we hit a poor signal area that causes excessive buffering, but that's pretty rare when we're running on the Interstates. Most of the time the tower transitions are seamless.

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