Dish Network and NTelos will pursue a strategic...
Dish Network and NTelos will pursue a strategic relationship to co-develop a fixed mobile broadband service, they said. The companies signed a letter of intent to deliver wireless broadband within NTelos’ coverage territory serving Virginia, West Virginia and portions of…
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Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky, Dish said in a news release Friday (http://bit.ly/11iDJAg). The service is expected to give NTelos and Dish customers, “many of whom are located in underserved rural communities, access to reliable high-speed Internet, whether at home or on the go,” it said. NTelos, as Dish’s first partner, is interesting “given its wholesale relationship with Sprint,” said Jennifer Fritzsche, Wells Fargo senior analyst. NTelos derived $40 million from its wholesale relationship with Sprint Nextel in the first quarter of 2013, she wrote investors. Wells Fargo’s Marci Ryvicker said NTelos is the “exclusive wholesale provider of wireless digital PCS services to Sprint Nextel in the western Virginia and West Virginia service area for all Sprint CDMA wireless customers,” in another research note. “This is important as whatever technology or services this new partnership develops is very likely to operate on Sprint’s PCS spectrum and could be easily utilized by a combined Dish/Sprint in our opinion."