Dish Network Corp.

Dish Network Corp.‘s creditors have rejected the company’s bond exchange offer just ahead of a key deadline, threatening the proposed merger with DirecTV. What Happened: The steering committee of Dish lenders criticized the deal, calling it one of the largest “engineered at the...

Dish Network Corp (NASDAQ: DISH) reported its Q4 2019 numbers and disclosed that it had lost both streaming and Pay-TV subscribers. What Happened Dish Network reported its fourth quarter, year-end financial results on Wednesday. The company reported revenue to the tune of $3.24 billion for Q4 2019...

If all goes as expected, Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) will be picking up a chunk of H-Block wireless spectrum in January. Dish CEO Charlie Ergen will have little in the way of competition based on the list of 34 bidders released by the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday....

After a wave of consolidation in the U.S. cellular market, one major acquisition target remains – T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS). According to AllThingsD, although the gains made by the company in its customer base in the second quarter were significant, the company remains on takeover radar as far...

For $10 a month, the country’s #4 cellphone service provider, T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS), said subscribers could trade in their old, working phone up to four times in a 24-month period, according to Bloomberg. Under the banner of a new program called “Jump,” T-Mobile is putting the squeeze on...

Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) means business. The company showed that when it trumped Sprint Nextel’s (NYSE: S) offer of $3.40 a share for Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) stock with a tender offer of $4.40 a share. In response now, according to Reuters, Clearwire told shareholders Wednesday to vote...

A well-known cliché says, “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” It should be peppered all over the walls of Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) corporate headquarters. As The New York Times reported Sunday, eight months ago, the “plan” was a done deal. Sprint Nextel would buy full control of...

Japanese telecommunications company, SoftBank, received the all-clear Tuesday regarding its proposed $20.1 billion takeover of Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) , according to Bloomberg. As momentum builds in favor of SoftBank, Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) and its $25.5 billion offer increasingly becomes...

When it looks like someone is about to spend $100 billion on something, heads turn. When the someone is Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and the something is Vodafone (NASDAQ: VOD), heads practically turn full circle, a la Linda Blair in The Exorcist. Hollywood, however, plays no part in a...

News that Verizon (NYSE: VZ) wants to buy Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) spectrum is being widely speculated but (so far) not confirmed by either party. Such a deal would potentially throw a wrench in the works with regard to negotiations involving Sprint (NYSE: S), Clearwire, Japan’s Softbank and...

Don’t feel bad if you missed it. Everybody else did too, but they shouldn’t feel bad because this is a big deal—maybe not yet, but if HBO follows through with its plans, it will rock the broadcast TV revenue model. Here’s what you missed. Reuters reported that HBO, owned by Time Warner (NYSE:...