May 15, 2013 –ENGLEWOOD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DISH, a leading pay-TV provider, today announced it is offering new subscribers the choice of an iPad 2 instead of first year programming discounts for customers who sign up for the Hopper with Sling® Whole-Home HD DVR and a qualified...
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A trial between Dish Network and ESPN involving sports programming is headed to court today, reports Bloomberg. At issue is whether ESPN violated a “most favored nation” clause in its distribution agreement with Dish that would prohibit ESPN from offering more favorable terms to a...
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Wireless network operator Clearwire revealed today that it has received an offer from satellite television operator Dish Network that could result in Clearwire’s sale to Dish. But Sprint, which already made plans to acquire the roughly half of Clearwire it doesn’t already own, said today...
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A slew of announcements about advanced video offerings have emerged from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Among the most interesting were an announcement from Cisco about a cloud-based version of its Videoscape Unity video service delivery platform, a pair of announcements...
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Satellite services from ViaSat/Exede and HughesNet underlie dishNET a new satellite broadband offering from Dish Network announced today. The new service supports broadband at speeds up to 10 Mbps but will have a monthly usage cap. Because of the cap, the service is expected to...
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ENGLEWOOD, CO — (Marketwire) — 08/28/12 — DISH (NASDAQ: DISH) DISHWorld’s live international content now viewable via Macs, PCs Family View allows up to three devices per account at the same time New channels added in Arabic, Brazilian, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu Free two-week trial...
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LightSquared’s filing for bankruptcy protection yesterday has generated much industry speculation about what will happen with the company’s spectrum holdings. Although that spectrum is officially designated only for satellite use, LightSquared attempted to repurpose it to support a nationwide wholesale LTE network that would be...
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DISH Networks is in the middle of a broad marketing campaign for their new whole home DVR solution, the Hopper. If you’ve watched TV in the past 60 days, you’ve probably seen ads for the new DISH DVR solution. How ironic that they are now...
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DISH has been quite busy over the past year with acquisitions. They have purchased a ton of wireless spectrum from DBSD, bought Blockbuster out of bankruptcy, purchased Hughes Networks and their satellite broadband service, and bought a Colorado based CLEC, Liberty Bell. All of this...
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