Dish Network is not happy with T-Mobile over its plans to shut down a network still used by millions of Dish’s Boost Mobile customers. In a letter to the FCC… Read More
A potential $6 billion deal with Dish Network could pave the way for approval of the T-Mobile-Sprint merger. Bloomberg reported that Dish is nearing an agreement to pay T-Mobile and… Read More
Amazon.com and Dish Network Corp. have held discussions about the two companies inking a partnership agreement to build-out a new wireless network, or forming an alliance where Amazon Prime members… Read More
The days of frantically searching for a lost TV remote may soon be coming to an end, at least for Dish customers, as Amazon’s digital brain Alexa can now control… Read More
Unprecedented global connectivity, a search for solitude in a fast-paced world, a yearning to connect with something bigger than ourselves … and, of course, the insatiable human desire to play Xbox 360 games… Read More
Dish’s telemarketers allegedly failed to heed no-call lists, and the satellite-TV provider may be fined up to $24 billion, a sum larger than the company’s current market value. The US Department… Read More
T-Mobile is once again the subject of merger talks, with The Wall Street Journal reporting Wednesday night that the Bellevue-based wireless carrier is in the formative stages of considering a… Read More
Sling TV couldn’t quite handle the amount of users trying to access its streams of this weekend’s NCAA basketball games. The Dish Network-operated service, which offers live TV streaming from a variety… Read More
LAS VEGAS — We’re back with the first official GeekWire radio show of 2015, direct from the press room at the Consumer Electronics Show, officially known as CES 2015. GeekWire’s John… Read More
LAS VEGAS — GeekWire’s John Cook, Taylor Soper and I share our impressions from CES Press Day in this latest video dispatch from the big consumer technology show. (Check out our previous… Read More
French Telecom provider Iliad said today it was pulling the plug on its plans to acquire T-Mobile. So, if not Iliad or Sprint, who else might be interested in the… Read More
The battle for who might buy T-Mobile is heating up. A report by Reuters today said that Dish Network is considering a bid for the Bellevue-based wireless carrier. It also says… Read More
Finally, the Clearwire/Sprint roller-coaster is coming to a stop. After six months of back and forth, shareholders from Bellevue-based Clearwire today made it official when they approved Sprint’s $5 per… Read More
After a long and drawn out bidding war, Clearwire’s fate appears to be nearly certain. The Federal Communications Commission is set to approval Sprint’s purchase of the Bellevue mobile broadband company,… Read More
Sprint may end up victorious in the bidding war for Clearwire, as Dish Network today withdrew its offer to purchase the Bellevue mobile broadband company. This comes after Sprint jacked up… Read More
Sprint seems to have gained the upper hand today in the ongoing tug-of-war over Clearwire after submitting a bid to purchase it at $5 per share. A little more than… Read More
Well, the rhetoric keeps rising as Sprint and Dish Network battle for Clearwire, the Bellevue-based provider of mobile broadband service. Following Dish’s upped bid last week, Sprint sent a letter… Read More
Bellevue-based Clearwire is delaying its vote on Sprint’s takeover offer to give the company extra time to discuss Dish Network’s new proposal. The vote, originally scheduled for Friday, has been pushed… Read More
The bidding war continues. Dish Network has boosted its offer for Bellevue-based Clearwire, just two days before shareholders were set to vote on a competing proposal by Sprint. The latest offer… Read More
Both Sprint and Dish Network are looking to buy Clearwire, the Bellevue-based wireless broadband operator that’s most coveted for its spectrum holdings. But now there may be another player in… Read More
As it continues to weigh buyout offers, Clearwire has elected to take an $80 million investment from Sprint, a move that could impede the acquisition of satellite TV provider Dish… Read More
A study that one Clearwire shareholder commissioned shows that the company’s spectrum is worth two to three times more than what Sprint is currently offering in its bid to acquire Bellevue-based… Read More