Dish executives closer to paying billions to T-Mobile for nationwide 5G spectrum
Low-band signals travel longer distances that mid-band and mmWave signals do which make them perfect to carry 5G across the country. The one downside is that they do not offer the faster download speeds that mid-band and mmWave do.
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Dish’s 5G plan sure looks familiar
Dish CFO Paul Orban said, “The probability that we would exercise [the purchase option] has increased.” And the big guy himself, Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen, said that there have been “positive developments in terms of a return on that spectrum.”