{"id":1033,"date":"2025-08-26T20:14:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/dish-gives-up-on-becoming-the-fourth-major-wireless-carrier\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:14:42","slug":"dish-gives-up-on-becoming-the-fourth-major-wireless-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/dish-gives-up-on-becoming-the-fourth-major-wireless-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Dish gives up on becoming the fourth major wireless carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/acastro_STK052_01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Dish&rsquo;s parent company, EchoStar, is selling a broad swath of its 5G spectrum licenses to AT&amp;T for $23 billion. <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.echostar.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/echostar-announces-spectrum-sale-and-hybrid-mobile-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Under the deal<\/a>, the Dish-owned Boost Mobile will primarily operate using AT&amp;T&rsquo;s growing network &#8211; a move that marks \u00ab\u00a0the end of the road for the fourth carrier,\u00a0\u00bb says Roger Entner, founder and lead analyst at Recon Analytics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">As part of T-Mobile&rsquo;s deal to acquire Sprint in 2019, the Department of Justice stipulated that another company must replace it as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/7\/24\/20708411\/dish-tmobile-sprint-carrer-merger-assets-spectrum-boost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the fourth major wireless carrier<\/a>. Dish came forward to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/7\/1\/21309968\/dish-boost-sprint-tmobile-acquisition-spinoff-closes-prepaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquire Boost Mobile from Sprint<\/a>, paying $1.4 billion to purchase the budget carrier and other prepaid assets. Since then, D \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/766038\/dish-echostar-spectrum-att-sale-fourth-carrier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dish&rsquo;s parent company, EchoStar, is selling a broad swath of its 5G spectrum licenses to AT&amp;T for $23 billion. Under [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}