Late in December 2022, DISH Network renewed its cellphone service provision agreement with T-Mobile Electronics Electronics Telecommunications multinational corporation for another three years. This deal ensures that DISH will be able to keep on running its cellphone venture and, in like manner, serving its nine million clients across the country as it simultaneously works on deploying its own 5G network.
Therefore, what exactly does this 3-year T-Mobile deal consist of, and implications for current and potential DISH customers? Here are some key details:
This section explains the basics of the deal.
This gives DISH leased access to T-Mobile’s 5G network across multiple channels and T-Mobile has committed to this deal up to December 31, 2025. This will assure the customers of DISH that they will still be able to enjoy and have reliable and fast 5G connections all over the country as DISH develops its own stand-alone 5G broadband network.
In more detail, the proposed arrangement provides DISH with advantageous conditions to gain access to T-Mobile’s 600 MHz low-band, AWS mid-band, and 1900 MHz band spectrum. This spectrum portfolio includes the following: This will support DISH’S nationwide 5G service:
Further, the agreement has a good roaming clause that means DISH subscribers who are in an area that is not covered by their native DISH network, will still be able to connect to T-Mobile’s network across the entire country.
The Effects on Existing DISH Subscribers
For DISH’s current wireless customers, these nine million people, this means that you get to keep on using your voice and text services, not to mention the 5G data services as you have always been. You will still get the same bill from DISH every month and you may use your existing devices, plans, and features, among others.
The timeline until the end of 2025 provides DISH with a clear vision of the time it would take to complete the deployment of its standalone, cloud-based 5G network dubbed Project Genesis. Once this next-gen network is live across DISH’s coverage footprint, customers will begin to migrate service from T-Mobile’s network infrastructure to DISH’s 5G network – this process will not happen overnight but instead will be done in stages over several years.
But in the long run, there is no doubt that existing clients shall be able to have their services delivered to them uninterrupted during the transition period courtesy of this new deal. It is not necessary to receive any further instructions.
It has implications for the future DISH subscribers in a way that they can change their set-top box at will.
For people who are willing to sign up for DISH wireless service, the reliability that this 3-year contract gives is that DISH service will deliver strong nationwide 5G now and in the future.
Customers joining now or within the next three years will be in a position to enjoy faster 5G speeds courtesy of T-Mobile’s network and DISH's available spectrum. This will also make it possible for the new subscribers to use 5G without having to worry about areas of limited 5G access within their region.
The shift to stand-alone DISH 5G service also will expand plans and services because DISH can offer new plans and services with its advanced, cloud-based network infrastructure. Therefore, it means that, entering a cooperation with DISH now one might get a good start to build upon improvements in the future.
Owning Its 5G Future
In the short term, DISH has contracted with T-Mobile to guarantee that the 4-5G LTE/5G services will stay reliable for the broadband customer base, but long term the plan is for DISH to become a fourth nationwide wireless competitor with the fully owned network.
This means that DISH obtains the necessary time to build high 5G population density across its markets using the wealth of spectrum to achieve its goals along with the development of the carrier-grade cloud-based standalone 5G core, often referred to as the ‘brains’ of the network that handles traffic routing.
Once the network core and more extensive 5G infrastructure are up and running, DISH will be able to progressively switch its clients and traffic to its own 5G network on a city-by-city basis.
Unlike its rivals, DISH has exclusive access to its own high-powered and far-reaching 5G network, which will enable it to optimize user interaction from the letter and will open up new opportunities for the creation of service plans according to customer preferences.
The Bottom Line
This agreement signed with the T-Mobile company for a lease period of 3 years will ensure that all the existing and new customers who subscribe to the DISH 5G service will not experience any disruptive change. This does not require policyholders to contribute any effort or switch to new plans, which is a clear advantage of the deal. Privately, DISH gains the essential time to aggressively go forward to complete and deploy the first cloud-native Open RAN-based 5G network in America.
So, for DISH consumers, it means that you can continue to enjoy your current voice, text, and 5G services without disruption. At the same time, you will be good to go as DISH awaits the opportunity to advance next-gen technologies as it showcases its infrastructure independence in the next years after the deal expires.
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