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Shares in Dish Network continued their multi-day slide on Tuesday, falling another 6% to a 14-year low of $11.41, after the pay-TV and wireless provider confirmed its systems were hit by a cyberattack. Outages and new information about them have come in waves. Last Thursday, when executives convened…

Dish Network, which is in the midst of a years-long shift from satellite pay-TV operator to wireless provider, met Wall Street expectations in the fourth quarter. The company said revenue came in at $4.45 billion in the period ending December 31, down slightly from $4.56 billion in the year-earlier period. Earnings…

Cricket Wireless plans to include the ad-supported tier of streaming service HBO Max at no extra charge for select customers. Beginning August 20, the $10-a-month offering will be part of Cricket’s $60-a-month unlimited plans, for both new and existing subscribers. AT&T acquired the prepaid telecom operation in 2014…

Dish Network and AT&T are joining forces, though not, as some have predicted, in the pay-TV space. Instead, Dish has agreed to pay AT&T $5 billion over a 10-year period to secure the telecom giant as its wireless network provider. After four decades focused on satellite TV services, Dish is pivoting to telecom after…

You know that feeling of panic when your phone’s battery is at 1% and there is no charger sight? Well, imagine that feeling and you’re trapped in the snow. That is exactly the level of anxiety that Tye Sheridan is feeling in the new trailer for the Quibi thriller Wireless created by Zach Wechter and Jack Seidman and…

Quibi has slotted September 14 for the premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s survival thriller series Wireless, starring Tye Sheridan. We’re also getting a first look at a just-released image above. In Wireless, on a sparsely traveled road deep in the Colorado mountains, college student Andy Braddock (Sheridan) drives to a…

Dish took a major step towards remaking itself Wednesday as it completed the $1.4 billion acquisition of Boost Mobile from T-Mobile, officially entering the retail wireless market serving more than nine million customers. The company founded by Charlie Ergen is diversifying out if its core satellite pay TV business as…

Moody's Investor Services downgraded Dish's corporate family rating due to an overall need for capital to refinance and repay debt and deleverage the company as revenues shrink due to secular industry pressure on satellite and Sling TV. It also cited the build out and startup costs of the company’s planned…

UPDATED with issue resolved, explanation from CEO Wireless provider T-Mobile has resolved widespread phone outages that began mid-day Monday and lasted through the night. In a post that appeared on the company’s website, CEO Mike Sievert said systems would need several more hours to be fully functional again. “This is…

Dish, the satellite TV provider and parent of Sling TV, is laying off staff to realign its workforce, the latest company across media to downsize amidst fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. "Due to the current economic climate, combined with changing needs of our customers and how we best serve them, Dish has made…

EXCLUSIVE: Andie MacDowell is set for a key supporting role opposite Tye Sheridan in Wireless, a survival thriller for Quibi that’s exec produced by Steven Soderbergh. Lukas Gage, Francesca Reale and Mace Coronel also have joined the cast in recurring roles. Created and exec produced by newcomers Zach Wechter and Jack…

X-Men and Ready Player One star Tye Sheridan is to front a survival thriller for Quibi exec produced by Steven Soderbergh. The shortform platform run by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman has ordered Wireless, created and exec produced by newcomers Zach Wechter and Jack Seidman, the pair behind short film Pocket…