Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Thursday, April 22nd, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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DISH network has announced it is partnered with AWS to build the first public cloud-based

5G network which DISH plans to launch initially in Las Vegas as soon as the

third quarter of this year. This is a first step but think of how this could be

disruptive to sell networking generally, quoting the Financial Times.

The DISH network will be a crucial test for a sector that has been reticent to move critical

network functions to the public cloud from dedicated data centers.

Through this collaboration with AWS, we will operate not just as a communications services provider,

but as a digital services provider harnessing the combined power of 5G connectivity and the cloud, said Charlie

Ergan, DISH co-founder and Chairman. Ergan said, the move toward the public cloud and

the use of smaller suppliers known as Open-RAN are crucial to the US and UK attempts to

regain a footing in the global telecoms market in the wake of crackdowns on the use of

Huawei equipment in markets including the US and the UK.

DISH is the fourth largest participant in the US wireless market but it uses capacity

on T-Mobile's network for 4G services.

The company intends to spend between 8 billion and 10 billion dollars

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