Dish's 10 billion 5G build-out budget likely won't be enough to build a standalone cellular network

Get the Full StoryDish Chairman Charlie Ergen used the company's Q4 earnings call to address analysts' concerns that 10 billion would not be enough to build a standalone cellular network. As a condition of T-Mobile acquiring Sprint, the US Federal Communications Commission FCC required Dish to build a standalone network that covers 20 of the US population by 2022.

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While skeptics have pointed to the far higher network build-out costs of other US carriers, Ergen said he believed they failed to account for technical debt the costs associated with maintaining old equipment and ensuring backward compatibility.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderSee Also:Developing chipsets in-house would make Oppo the last of the five biggest smartphone vendors to break its reliance on QualcommUK consumers aren't switching their wealth managers partly due to exit feesT-Mobile-Sprint merger might be renegotiated after underwhelming Sprint financials, but doing so could also hurt T-Mobile's growth

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