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DISH Network (DISH) Confirms Agreement to Become National Facilities-based Wireless Carrier

July 26, 2019 11:46 AM EDT

DISH Network (Nasdaq: DISH) will enter the U.S. wireless market as the fourth nationwide facilities-based network competitor. DISH has reached agreements with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, T-Mobile US, Inc. and Sprint Corporation to complete this transformative transaction. Additionally, DISH has committed to the Federal Communications Commission that DISH will deploy a facilities-based 5G broadband network capable of serving 70 percent of the U.S. population by June 2023, and has requested that its spectrum licenses be modified to reflect those commitments.

Following completion of the merger of... More