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Dish Giving AT&T Free Spectrum for 60 Days to Enhance Wireless Capacity

Dish Network is giving AT&T 20 MHz of its AWS-4 spectrum and all of its 700 MHz portfolio at no cost for 60 days, said Dish Thursday. It began lending T-Mobile all its 600 MHz spectrum last week. With the…

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AT&T and T-Mobile agreements, Dish “has activated most of its spectrum portfolio to enhance national wireless capacity as the nation confronts the COVID-19 crisis,” it said. T-Mobile said Thursday it has now deployed additional 600 MHz spectrum from multiple companies (see 2003160063), “effectively doubling total 600 MHz LTE capacity across the nation.” The extra spectrum “will help ensure T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile and partner customers can stay connected during this critical time,” the carrier said.