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Dish to build out mobile network, looks for partners
Section: News, Video, Portable Video, Video Providers Dish Network recently won enough licenses to cover the entire US, except for New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Boston ? and the industry has been abuzz with speculation as to what the satellite TV company plans to do with it. Now, Dish has disclosed that it would use the licenses to build a mobile TV service ? but they?re in no hurry. Picking the right technology, the right business model, and the right partner will be critical in Dish Network?s plans. Building a mobile TV network would be no joke ? the company would likely spend between $500 million to $2 billion. Major decisions would take time and deliberation. Vice Chairman Carl Vogel confirmed: ?We?r...
