T-Mobile +Dish

[ncted]

The question is: Is Dish getting an open ended extension to use that spectrum that was about to expire?


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I would expect that to be part of the deal, but that is the FCC and Ajit Pai is a <censored> <censored> <not nice word>, so who knows?

 

[navychop]

I’d expect Dish to not play unless they got that.


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[ncted]

Dish Network was not the only company interested in T-Mobile-Sprint's divested assets

 

[navychop]

Hmmm. That article seems to say Dish still has the March deadline. I hope that is not the case.


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[Yespage]

While Dish does this, it will start building its own 5G network using the spectrum it is paying $3.5 billion to T-Mobile for, and other airwaves it had won during an FCC auction.

I thought Dish would have had enough spectrum for 5G. Why would they pay T-Mobile for more? I thought Dish's issue was infrastructure, not bandwidth.

Regardless, I think Dish's maneuvers indicate they'll be using their spectrum some time soon™ and there isn't a concern about Dish sitting on it. Otherwise, why go through all this?

 

[navychop]

Better frequencies. Roaming.


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[MikeD-C05]

At a certain point, you have to stop saying he “got lucky”, and admit the man has an insight for business acumen.

Hes a poker player. He bluffs A LOT and in this case he waited till they came to him to ask for his help. I do admire that he has stuck with the company and tried to make it diversify into streaming and now cell phone service. But I still think this was pure luck that T mobile and Sprint needed to sell the assets to DISH, so they could get their merger through. Especially since T mobile and DISH had no love lost between them after their failed want to be merger, that neither CEO would cede power to run the new proposed combined company. Charlie has walked away from a lot of partnerships along the way and has a reputation of not playing nicely with others. This has followed him and given him a somewhat bad reputation among the business world and among government departments like the FCC. But he wants to go it alone. Good luck with that. It might not be that long in the future before we see DISH needing someone to help them out of the new wireless company that they create because they simply can't compete with the other big 3 wireless companies. But who knows? Charlie might get lucky again and live to play another day.

 

[MikeD-C05]

It’s fine, he blocked me awhile back and can’t see my posts(unless he has recently had a change of heart).

You are no longer blocked. I only block some Political pit members ,who I simply do not want to waste my time arguing with.

 

[dare2be]

You are no longer blocked. I only block some Political pit members ,who I simply do not want to waste my time arguing with.

Me too, mostly those who have a habit of bringing Pit material outside the Pit, but I also block those who can't write past a 3rd grade level. A lot of times it's the same people.

 

[navychop]

Charlie hasn’t repudiated his IoT ideas.


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[Claude Greiner]

Before anyone declares a victory for Dish, this is far from over.

Where exactly is Charlie going to sell his cell phones?

Blockbuster stores would have been perfect, and if the Directv/AT&T buyout has told us anything, the independent SATELLITE retailers are NOT cell phone dealers. So even though selling cell phones through Dish looks appealing, it will not be a success if he thinks he is going to get the retailers to sell his garbage.

Then what you really got to look at, even if Charlie was able to resell “Boost” that is a prepaid cell phone carrier that caters to lower income customers.

What dish needs is the higher end customers that AT&T and Verizon have with their post paid service.

I think we shall see, but I still don’t think dish is in a position to be a 4th cellular phone provider and if they do go that route, watch Dish implode like Directv has

 

[Radioguy41]

Before anyone declares a victory for Dish, this is far from over.

Where exactly is Charlie going to sell his cell phones?

The same place Boost (the cellular business he's buying) is being sold now. That shouldn't be a mystery.

 

[ncted]

They could also do it online, like Visible.

 

[Tampa8]

Before anyone declares a victory for Dish, this is far from over.

Where exactly is Charlie going to sell his cell phones?

.........

I know a former retailer for DISH who could.

 

[comfortably_numb]

Visible Wireless is proving that brick & mortar stores are no longer necessary to sell wireless. As a Verizon customer, it's nice to have the option to go to a store, but any more I avoid going unless I absolutely have to. Their sales people are "in your face" and don't really let you browse. Either that, or the stores are too busy to be seen in a timely fashion. They also don't repair phones any longer, and they won't configure them (this is especially disappointing for the older techno-challenged crowd). They want to drop a phone sealed in plastic in a gift sack and send you out the door.

 

[navychop]

T-Mobile stores aren’t like that. They will answer questions, teach, configure and make it a nice experience.


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[comfortably_numb]

T-Mobile stores aren’t like that. They will answer questions, teach, configure and make it a nice experience.

That may be so, but their coverage sucks in rural areas, so they're still a non-starter for me. You can have the best customer service in the world but if your product doesn't work when and where you need it, then it means nothing.

 

[glynnp]

Reliable rural Internet coverage is dependent on 3 things

Location, location and of course location.

Verizon rocks it here while everybody else is trying to catch up.

 

[comfortably_numb]

everybody else is trying to catch up.

I'm not sure if the others are even "trying!" In the past 10 years, Verizon has deployed towers in several unserved areas near me. The other 3 are nowhere to be found.

 

[glynnp]

I'm not sure if the others are even "trying!" In the past 10 years, Verizon has deployed towers in several unserved areas near me. The other 3 are nowhere to be found.

Hard for them to compete with Big Red.