With Dish Network owner EchoStar selling $23 billion in valuable spectrum to AT&T, any pretense that the TV provider will become a serious wireless competitor is dead. But the project was always doomed to fail, and despite plenty of assurances by the Trump administration and other companies involved, the very obvious writing was always on the wall.
Back in 2020, the first Trump administration rubber-stamped T-Mobile’s $26 billion merger with Sprint. There were endless warnings from unions,…
