Dish Network was just approved by the FCC to now offer its own smartphone service to consumers making them the second largest satellite-TV provider in competing with Verizon and AT&T. The reasoning for the move is for the Dish Network to broaden their reach with consumers as a result from decreasing sales with the satellite-TV business. This would make sense to me because most people I know that have satellite TVs are Direct TV users, and from what I hear from word-of-mouth it is way better anyone. Aside from its close competition with other satellite companies there are also "on-demand" TV owners such as Comcast and Time Warner cable, which as grown in popular big time. Dish Network is seeing the bad signs and sets to rely less on this side of the business. FCC members were in full support of Dish's move, however some restrictions may "cripple" them when entering the wireless industry. Apparently, Sprint as come forward to Dish for a potential partnership that would combine Dish with mobile-phone service over Sprint's network. I personally feel for the Dish Network, back in the day my family and I were users, which I was not a big fan of. We switched to Direct TV and haven't looked back since, but now living in a age of everything "on-demand" other options may come up. The fact that Dish is trying new things to broaden its reach is showing they are putting up a good fight in a very competitive market, however I believe it is too late for that.
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