Tag: Dish
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Amazon & DISH Are Reportedly Interested in Buying Boost Mobile
Amazon & DISH are reportedly both bidding on buying Boost Mobile. According to Bloomberg DISH is offering $6 billion to buy Boost but Amazon’s offer is unknown according to Bloomberg. DISH has already been working on building According to reports Amazon wants to buy Boost mainly for its wholesale deal that would allow Amazon to…
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DISH is Adding Netflix to Hotels Across The United States
Today Dish announced that they are adding Netflix to Dish EVOLVE TV powered hotels. This includes many well-known hotels across the United States. “With DISH, hotel operators can offer best-in-class entertainment options for guests by personalizing the in-room TV experience with Netflix, or providing the flexibility to watch content anywhere on the property, like at…
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DISH Will Now Set Up Your Roku Player in Your Home
Need help getting your smart home setup? DISH will now come to your house and setup your smart home devices including Roku Players. Want more help? DISH will also help set up your Linksys router, Ring doorbell, Polk Audio, and many more. DISH can even do this as quickly as the same day from their…
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DISH Is Threatening Lawsuits Against IPTV Subscribers
For years DISH has gone after pirates who use boxes to access DISH signals without paying. Now it looks like through DISH’s NagraStar’s SatScams.com joint venture DISH is also going after people who stream DISH-owned content through IPTV services. Here is how SatScams.com describes what they do: “Welcome to SatScams.com. This site is provided by…
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AT&T Reportedly is Considering Selling DIRECTV’s Satellite Service to DISH
For years we have talked about the possibility that DISH and DIRECTV would follow in the footsteps of Sirius and XM radio with a merger. Now, accounting to Reuters, AT&T is considering selling off or merging the DIRECTV satellite service with DISH. AT&T has already made it clear they plan to no longer support the…
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DISH Just Won $2 Million in Damages From a Set TV IPTV Reseller
Back in June of 2018 Dish won a lawsuit against SET TV an IPTV service that reportedly streamed content owned by DISH without permission. As part of the lawsuit ending SET TV was ordered to pay DISH $90 million. Now DISH just won $2 million more in damages from a SET TV reseller called A-Box…
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Dish Plans to Launch Its Narrowband Internet IoT Network In Early 2020
Earlier this month at the Dish Team Summit it was announced to Dish employees and partners that Dish plans to launch narrowband “Internet of Things” (IoT) internet in early 2020 and spoke of plans to be the U.S.’s first standalone 5G provider at a later date. According to the Satelliteguys who attended the event Dish’s…
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Sling TV’s President Thinks AT&T is Being “Anti-Competitive”
Back when AT&T was in trial with the DOJ fighting to buy Time Warner Sling TV’s President Warren Schlichting testified against the merger. Today at the Pay-TV Show he said he thinks the fears raised back during that trial have come true AT&T is being “anti-competitive.” How exactly AT&T is being anti-competitive was not disclosed…
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Dish, Spectrum, Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon Have Lost Over 1.1 Million in The 1st Quarter of 2019 As Cord Cutting Grows
Today we learned that Dish, Spectrum, Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon have lost over 1.1 million TV subscribers in just 3 months. Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T have reported their first quarter 2019 numbers with over 900,000 people canceled their pay-TV service. AT&T also announced that DIRECTV NOW lost 83,000 subscribers in the 1st quarter of 2019. This is compared…
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Cord Cutting This Week 63 – Sling TV is Bigger Than PlayStation Vue & DIRECTV NOW, ATSC 3.0, & More
Join Cord Cutters News every Saturday as we take a look back at some of the biggest Cord Cutting Stories from the past week. Now, remember these are my opinions on them not an in-depth look at each story. If you would like to learn more about each story check out the links below. (Also let…