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Moody's downgrades Dish rating on doubts over mobile plans
2020-06-29 08:43:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Dish Networks ratings, saying the company will need a lot more capital to finance its planned 5G IoT network. The agency reduced its rating on Dish bonds to a step below investment grade, to Ba3, from B1. It cited concerns about the height of the investment needed, noting Dish's declining revenues amid the need for more capital to refinance and repay debt. Those concerns will continue until the company secures an equity investment or partners. "We also believe risk is rising due to the continuing secular decline of DBS's pay-TV subscriber base," the rating agency said.
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Dish scraps NB-IoT network in favour of 5G
2020-05-11 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Alongside its latest financial update, Dish has announced that it is no longer continuing with its narrowband (NB) IoT network deployment, instead choosing for focus on wireless, especially its 5G network. Dish had planned on investing $500 million into its IoT network to help meet construction deadlines linked to spectrum lincences…read more on TotalTele.com »
DISH Network pay TV subscribers down 413,000 in 1Q 2020
2020-05-07 12:30:04| Digital TV News
DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH) has reported results for the quarter ending March 31, 2020. The company closed with 11.32 million Pay-TV subscribers, (9.01 million DISH TV and 2.31 million Sling TV) down approximately 413,000 in the quarter.
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Dish TV India offers VOD content with MX Player app
2020-04-27 12:00:55| Digital TV News
Dish TV India has announced that it has partnered with MX Player to offer video-on-demand content to its customers. DishTV and d2h users can access MX Players content through their Android Set-top-Boxes.
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DISH Media offers set-top box VOD inventory programmatically
2020-04-22 15:40:09| Digital TV News
DISH Media has made its VOD ads available for purchase programmatically. Now advertisers can bid on this linear inventory through auctions set up with demand-side platforms and deliver ads and receive impressions immediately.
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