Tag: Dish
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DISH Is Suing Stores for Selling “Kodi Boxes”
Last year, DISH won a $25 million lawsuit against the makers of Shava TV for selling piracy devices. Now DISH has started to go after stores that sell these devices commonly known as “Kodi Boxes.” Earlier this year, DISH filed a lawsuit against several New York stores including “ABC Wireless NYC,” “Family Phone,” and “Goyal…
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Univision Pulls Their Channels From Sling TV & Dish After Asking For a 75% Price Increase
Today Univision pulled their channels from Sling TV and Dish after asking for a 75% price hike. This comes as according to Dish “ratings for its flagship Univision channel have declined nearly 40 percent since 2012.” Dish went on to say “despite the direct-to-consumer Univision Now app costing $7.99 per month, Univision is asking DISH…
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Dish Plans to Spend $10 Billion to Build a 5G Home Internet Network
5G internet brings the promise of competition to home internet. Instead of having to run a wire to each house in a town, companies can build a few towers and deliver 5G internet in a fraction of the time. Now Dish wants in on the effort joining Charter, Google, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and others. Not…
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Dish & Sling TV Want to Team Up With Your Internet Service Provider
Yesterday Dish announced the launch of their new DISH Alliance Group. This group will team up with internet service providers (ISPs) to provide customer service and TV services for ISPs. “DISH provides ISPs with an economical path to delivering video and other value-added services to their customers,” said Perry Crider, manager of DISH Alliance Group.…
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Dish Plans to Spend a $1 Billion to Roll Out 5G
We have known for some time that Dish was planning to roll out 5G internet service across the United States. Yesterday Dish gave more details about their plans to roll out their new 5G service. During the call Dish announced that they plan to cover 70 percent of the United States in each of the…
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Dish Officially Announces Legal Action against Two IPTV Services
A few weeks ago it was reported that Dish had filed two lawsuits targeting IPTV services. Yesterday, Dish formally announced the lawsuits and explained why they are taking these steps. The two IPTV services Dish targeted are Spider-TV and Tiger Star and, according to the complaint, Dish is suing them for broadcasting certain TV channels…
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Dish Sues Two More IPTV Providers
A few months ago Dish kicked off their legal fight against piracy streaming services by suing the Kodi-add-on ZemTV and TVAddons.org. Now according to TorrentFreak Dish Network has filed two new lawsuits against pirate IPTV providers. The first lawsuit was recently filed in Maryland against Furniture Inc. and Mohammad Yusif for their Spider-TV service. Dish says the defendants are selling…
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Dish Network’s CEO Steps Down to Focus on Wireless 5G Internet
Today it was reported that Dish Network’s CEO Charlie Ergen will step down to focus on the companies 5G home internet plans. Now Erick Carlson the current President and Chief Operating Officer will succeed Ergen as CEO of Dish. Charlie Ergen was a co-founder Dish, and more recently is credited with the launching of Sling…
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How to Watch CBS During The Dish Blackout
This morning after a long battle with CBS Dish dropped CBS-owned CBS locals, CBS Sports Network, Pop, and the Smithsonian Channel. Both sides are blaming the other but the story is one we have all heard before. Sadly this happens just as the Thanksgiving holiday is coming up full of football and and other holiday…
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Dish Network Drops CBS-Owned Stations
This morning after a long battle with CBS Dish dropped CBS-owned CBS locals, CBS Sports Network, Pop, and the Smithsonian Channel. Both sides are blaming the other but the story is one we have all heard before. CBS wants more money and Dish is fighting back against having to raise their fees. In a statement…