Tag: Dish
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DISH Get a Huge Win In Court & Won’t Have to Pay $469 Million in Damages
A few weeks a jury in U.S. Federal Court in Utah has decided that DISH must pay $469 million over its commercial-skipping technology that infringed on two different patents. Now a judge has ruled in DISH’s favor overturning the jury ruling and saying DISH did not infringe on ClearPlay’s patents. In a statement sent to…
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DISH Must Pay $469 Million Over Commercial-Skipping Patent
Today a jury in U.S. Federal Court in Utah has decided that DISH must pay $469 million over its commercial-skipping technology that infringed on two different patents. With this ruling DISH must pay ClearPlay $469 million over its Hopper set-top boxes. The one good news for DISH is that the jury did rule that DISH…
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DISH Gets FCC Approval to Start Testing 5G
Over the last few years, DISH has slowly been expanding into being a wireless company. With the purchase of Boost Mobile, Dish is now the 4th largest wireless company in the United States. DISH has also been slowly buying up spectrum as it prepares to launch its own national 5G Network instead of relying on…
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DISH Wins Its Patent Case Against Peloton & Blocks Imports Of Peloton Products
Over the last few years, Peloton has seen sales skyrocket and now fall down to earth. The pandemic made Peloton a must-have as millions started to look for ways to work out from home. Now there is more bad news for Peloton as DISH won a patent case against their use of streaming technology. This…
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DISH & Sling TV Are Still Struggling One Week After a Cyber-Security Breach – But Customers Have Some Good News
One week ago, DISH, Boost Mobile, Sling TV, and AirTV’s websites all suffered a cyber-security breach. DISH, Boost Mobile, and AirTV’s websites went fully down, but Sling TV so far has only suffered outages with its customer service sites. DISH and Boost Mobile websites are back online but with limited options and limited customer service.…
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DISH, Boost Mobile, & AirTV’s Websites Have Been Down For Days After a Possible Cyberattack
Have you been trying to visit DISH or Sling TV’s AirTV website recently? Been getting error pages with them you visit the websites? You are not alone, as for days, DISH and AirTV’s websites have been fully down or partially down. On DISH’s main website, they have posted this message. “We are experiencing a system…
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DISH & Sling TV Lost 268,000 Subscribers in The 4th Quarter of 2022
Today DISH announced their 4th quarter earnings for 2022. In that report, we learned that DISH and Sling TV lost a combined 268,000 subscribers in just three months. Sling TV ended 2022 with 2.334 million subscribers, down from a high of 2.556 million subscribers in the 3rd quarter of 2021. DISH TV ended the year…
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DISH Wins $32 Million From Illegal IPTV Owners
DISH, for years, has been a leader in going after owners of illegal IPTV services that sell live TV for a fraction of the cost. Now DISH has won again, and this time against Advanced TV Network. ATN, like other IPTV services, claimed to be legal but received its contents illegally. The service was reportedly…
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DISH Tries to Seize a House From The Owner of The IPTV Service Nitro TV
Back in June 2022, DISH went after the owners of the pirate IPTV service Nitro TV. DISH ended up winning $100 million in damages. Now DISH wants the court to seize the house of the owner. After winning the $100 million in damages, DISH started going through the Galindo’s family assets to find ways to…
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A DISH & DIRECTV Merger May Be Coming Soon Thanks to Cord Cutting
For years there have been talks of a possible DIRECTV and DISH merger. Now the time may be finally right and 2023 may be the year the two satellite TV services merge. The growth of cord cutting and AT&T spinning DIRECTV off into its own company creates conditions that could make the merger a reality.…