Dish Network Wants to be Quadruple-Play Service Provder

Dish Network is asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to use some of its satellite spectrum to build a Long Term Evolution network that would allow rural users to communicate directly to satellites for mobile service, or to ground-based radios where feasible. Dish asks FCC for permission to build LTE network

Dish Network wants to combine the S-Band spectrum licensees it acquired from TerreStar Networks and DBSD North America and use those frequencies to underpin an LTE-Advanced network.In return for the waiver, Dish said it will commit to a "substantial terrestrial network deployment" intended to increase wireless broadband competition, including in rural areas.

"We are putting together the building blocks to be able to provide a whole suite of services to the customer," Dish President and Chief Executive Joe Clayton said. "Wireless voice, broadband, video, mobile … we're going to have the capability to do all of the above." Dish wants to be quadruple-play provider

Read more about Dish Network’s plan for its LTE network here. It is hard to say which service Dish Network might potentially offer will emerge as the anchor service. It might as arguably be mobile video as broadband access.