EchoStar Offering Spectrum Licenses for Lease: RWA
Dish Wireless parent EchoStar is interested in leasing spectrum to smaller carriers and tribes, the Rural Wireless Association told members Thursday. Leases are available “on a first-come, first-serve basis” in the 600 MHz, 700 MHz, citizens broadband radio service, AWS-3, AWS-4 and AWS H-block bands, RWA said. “EchoStar is making its spectrum licenses available for lease pursuant to conditions imposed by the FCC in a granted extension request of its final 5G construction milestones,” the group said.
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Several RWA members met with Dish staff at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona “and learned that DISH is very flexible in its approach for leasing spectrum,” RWA said: “Carriers seeking to build stand-alone 5G networks using DISH spectrum may be able to piggyback on some of DISH’s vendor agreements for better pricing … RWA delegates found DISH to be open to creative uses of the spectrum and much more flexible than originally thought.”