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If {sounds like a drug deal}, go back to sleep

I actually like the sound of this. We get one more competitor in Dish since they've had a boner for 5G a long while now. There's even a countdown until they launched some big thing in all their call centers. It was hyped up during training. They are so happy about this. They get access to T-Mobile's network while they build up their own 5G, but they've been headed that way with the mmwave shit this whole time anyway and now have a pathway to a network to expand their reach beyond densely packed suburban areas they admitted was their only downside. A satellite-based service can't severely limit its access like that. They've seen the path television is taking and they're heading it off. We're consuming so much media online now and while cable is the big dog in broadcast television, there's some big money in the onlines. They already sling it to you and sell it a-la-carte. They really do want to please those people who hate cable and everybody's starting walling off their own gardens. It's a good bet. 

We could also possibly get one more large, national carrier in their spin-offs merging. You have to be big to survive covering such a large and varied landmass. It's just the nature of this beast and we'll have to accept that it's not going to be an easy task. We need more carriers, but they all have to be gargantuan. Sounds like maybe we should have better regulation, but let's take this one step at a time because right now we need the numbers.