The Federal Communications Commission will likely cancel a 25 percent discount that satellite TV provider Dish Network took in the most recent wireless spectrum auction. Marguerite Reardon started as ...

Dish network is in jeopardy of losing billions of dollars in discounts that it claimed in a spectrum auction earlier this year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The news outlet reported the ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has circulated a proposal to deny Dish $3.3 billion in discounts that it claimed by bidding through smaller companies in an airwave auction that ...

Dish Network Corp. is less likely to pursue a big deal with T-Mobile US Inc. or other carriers to break into the mobile phone industry if the Federal Communications Commission cancels a controversial ...

Dish's outspoken chairman, Charlie Ergen, says the feds' efforts to deny it a $3.3 billion discount on spectrum it bid on in the last auction has dampened enthusiasm for mergers or participation in an ...

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai is objecting to Dish Networks' claim on more than $3 billion in discounts in the recently closed AWS-3 spectrum auction. Dish did not bid directly on any spectrum. Instead, ...

If the FCC cancels the discount Dish received during the auction, the company will have to pay an additional $3.3 billion to the commission. This would essentially be an addition to the company's ...

Dish CEO Charlie Ergen stated on the earnings call that the cancellation of the $3.3 billion discount the company received in the AWS-3 spectrum auction might derail the company's future plans. The ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Dish is trying to cash in over $3 billion in discounts meant to help “very small businesses” during ...

Dish took advantage of discounts intended for small businesses to save $3.3 billion in an auction of public airwaves, making a “mockery” of the small business program, according to a member of the ...