Dish gives up on becoming the fourth major wireless carrier

Dish's genitor company, EchoStar, is selling a wide swath of its 5G spectrum licenses to AT&T for $23 billion. Under the deal, the Dish-owned Boost Mobile volition chiefly run utilizing AT&T's increasing web - a determination that marks "the extremity of the roadworthy for the 4th carrier," says Roger Entner, laminitis and pb expert astatine Recon Analytics.

As portion of T-Mobile's woody to get Sprint successful 2019, the Department of Justice stipulated that different institution indispensable regenerate it arsenic the 4th large wireless carrier. Dish came guardant to acquire Boost Mobile from Sprint, paying $1.4 cardinal to acquisition the fund bearer and different prepaid assets. Since then, D …

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