{"id":957845,"date":"2025-08-27T08:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957845"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:54:27","slug":"att-to-acquire-echostar-spectrum-licenses-for-23-billion-will-it-impact-dish-tv-sling-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/27\/att-to-acquire-echostar-spectrum-licenses-for-23-billion-will-it-impact-dish-tv-sling-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T to acquire EchoStar Spectrum licenses for $23 billion. Will it impact Dish TV, Sling operations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Ergen\u2019s EchoStar has signed a deal with AT&amp;T to sell a total of 50 MHz of nationwide spectrum for about $23 billion, subject to regulatory approval, according to Variety. AT&amp;T and EchoStar have also agreed to enhance their long-term wholesale network services agreement, enabling EchoStar to operate as a hybrid mobile network operator (MNO) providing wireless service under the Boost Mobile brand. AT&amp;T will be the primary network services partner to EchoStar as it continues to serve wireless customers, the company said in a news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Ergen\u2019s EchoStar has signed a deal with AT&amp;T to sell a total of 50 MHz of nationwide spectrum for about $23 billion, subject to regulatory approval, according to Variety. AT&amp;T and EchoStar have also agreed to enhance their long-term wholesale network services agreement, enabling EchoStar to operate as a hybrid mobile network operator (MNO) providing wireless service under the Boost Mobile brand. AT&amp;T will be the primary network services partner to EchoStar as it continues to serve wireless customers, the company said in a news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}