Verizon Open to Leasing Dish Network Spectrum

Verizon Communications says it has no interest in buying Dish Network, but is willing to lease spectrum from Dish, says Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam.

That would solve Dish Network’s “need an operating network” problem, while monetizing some of the value of the spectrum. That wholesale access also would give Verizon additional bandwidth, without requiring that Verizon buy an asset (Dish Network) that does not fit with Verizon’s strategy for video, which is mobile, not fixed or satellite delivered.

Dish controls 40 MHz of mid-band AWS-4 spectrum in the 2 GHz to 2.2 GHz frequency range, 10 MHz of 1.9 GHz PCS H Block spectrum and perhaps 25 MHz of AWS-3 spectrum at 1.7 GHz.

source: Market Realist