Dish Network secured a significant and extensive partnership that it hopes will advance the roll-out of its U.S.-based, next-generation 5G network. On Friday, the company entered into a strategic agreement with computer technologies giant Dell Technologies, which has agreed to be Dish's open RAN ecosystem and edge infrastructure solutions provider. Under the terms of the…

Luxembourg-based satellite company OQ Technology selected Lithuania's NanoAvionics to build, integrate, and operate a 6U nanosatellite for its upcoming constellation, OQ announced Monday. This is the second satellite that NanoAvionics will build for OQ, which is developing a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation to provide commercial 5G Internet of Things (IoT) and M2M services in Africa,…

Dish Network Corporation has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider and will construct its 5G network on AWS, the companies announced Wednesday.  Dish also announced that Las Vegas will be the first live city in its network deployment. Dish has committed to the FCC to build a network that can serve…

Dish Network selected Palo Alto Networks as the cloud security services provider for its OpenRAN-based 5G wireless network in the United States. Dish's 5G network will utilize Palo Alto Networks' VM-series and CN-series firewalls, as well as its Prisma Cloud security platform, which includes network slicing, real-time threat correlation and dynamic security enforcement features. "5G…