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Dish Network utilizing Qualcomm for its 5G rollout

2020-11-12 18:44 by
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U.S. satellite TV provider Dish Network has signed up Qualcomm as its latest partner in efforts to build its 5G network using open and cloud-based platforms by 2023, it said on Wednesday.

"We are excited about working with DISH to accelerate their strategy to bring flexible, scalable, and interoperable 5G deployments to a more competitive North American market," said Durga Malladi, Qualcomm's 5G lead, in the press release.

Dish became a nationwide U.S. wireless carrier earlier this year when it acquired Boost Mobile. Its launch of the nation's first cloud-native Open RAN-based 5G broadband network would mark a notable innovation in the space.

Dish will not be alone in using products based on the Qualcomm 5G O-RAN platforms, however. In a recent announcement about those platforms, Qualcomm listed AT&T, Verizon and numerous carriers in other world regions as companies that it was working with on the platforms.

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