US connectivity company DISH has signed agreements with four fibre vendors, Everstream, Segra, Uniti and Zayo, giving it fronthaul and backhaul support to connect its 5G network to sites covering approximately 60 million Americans. With these agreements, DISH gains access to fibre coast-to-coast, providing it the coverage, speed and bandwidth needed to connect its forthcoming […]
Connectivity company DISH and communications infrastructure provider Crown Castle have agreed a long-term deal through which Crown Castle will lease DISH space on up to 20,000 communication towers in the US. As part of the agreement, DISH will receive certain fibre transport services and also have the option to utilise Crown Castle for pre-construction services. […]
Measurement and data analytics company Nielsen is adding addressable measurement to its National TV currency. Through strategic data integrations, Nielsen will add ~55 million devices across smart TVs and set-top boxes to help scale addressable TV. Nielsen’s addressable measurement will include AT&T’s DirecTV, DISH, Nielsen Advanced Video Advertising and addressable campaigns on VIZIO that utilise […]
DISH Network Corporation and Qualcomm Technologies have announced a collaboration to test open and virtualised RAN 5G solutions containing the new Qualcomm 5G RAN Platforms to help fast track DISH’s rollout of what is intended to be the US’s first cloud-native, Open RAN-compliant 5G network. DISH will utilise the Qualcomm 5G RAN Platforms through DISH’s […]
The top 10 service providers in the US that provide figures collectively lost 862,800 television subscribers in the third quarter of 2020, according to the informitv Multiscreen Index. Eight of the top 10 services in the US lost
US comms and pay-TV provider DISH and tech giant Intel are partnering to integrate Intel 5G infrastructure technology into DISH’s buildout of the nation’s first virtualised, open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) 5G network deployment. DISH has selected the Intel Xeon Scalable Processor, the Intel Ethernet 800 Series network adapter, the Intel vRAN Dedicated Accelerator ACC100 […]
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has ruled out any sort of merger between Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network and arch-rival AT&T’s DirecTV. The two pay-TV giants are both losing subscribers and a merger between them has long been mooted, not least by Ergen who has frequently said that a merger was inevitable. However, the New […]
Charlie Ergen has filed documents with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to create a public company called Conx. Ergen is using Conx as a SPAC (a Special Purpose Acquisition Company) as the shell vehicle for his move. Conx is offering 100 million shares (and possibly up to 115 million) at $10 each as part […]
Quantum Metric, the SaaS platform that helps organisations build digital products, and DISH, has formed a new partnership with US pay-TV network DISH to build innovative new product experiences driven by customer behaviours, intelligence, and input. Through this collaboration, Quantum Metric will help DISH analyse technical and behavioral indicators while creating optimised in-page analytics that […]
Nokia has announced that DISH Network has chosen Nokia’s cloud-native, standalone Core software products to help it build a fully-automated, cloud-native 5G network in the US with high-level scale, performance, and efficiency. The deal follows months of joint testing as Nokia and DISH proved their respective “any cloud” capabilities in multiple cloud environments, along with […]