Dish Submits 5G Data to FCC
Dish Network certified at the FCC that as of June 14 it offered 5G broadband service to nearly 246.5 million people in the U.S., equal to 73.56% total U.S. population based on 2020 U.S. census data. Dish said download speeds…
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are equal to or greater than 35 Mbps, and it has deployed 16,399 5G sites. “DISH’s user equipment offering includes the Motorola Edge Plus 2023, an advanced 5G smartphone,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 22-212: “It operates on, among other spectrum frequencies, DISH’s AWS-4, AWS H Block, 600 MHz, and Lower 700 MHz E Block spectrum licenses. The coverage calculations and link budgets in this 5G Buildout Status Report are based upon the technical specifications and performance of this device.” Dish previously announced it had met the June 14 coverage milestone (see 2306150010). “Project Genesis is available to anyone in a qualifying location, and offers unlimited 5G data and voice services for $25/month,” Dish said. The carrier asked that technical data it submitted be given confidential treatment by the FCC and not publicly disclosed. "Disclosure of the Confidential 5G Materials would be particularly harmful to DISH because of our status as a nascent competitor to the largest incumbent wireless carriers," Dish said. "DISH zealously guards information about its ongoing 5G deployment from incumbent competitors because its disclosure would give them an undue commercial advantage competing with DISH, which is a competitor in the consumer mobile wireless market."