DISH Wireless L.L.C.

DISH Wireless L.L.C. is an American wireless network provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation. In a significant corporate restructuring, DISH Network and its subsidiaries, including DISH Wireless, became wholly owned by EchoStar Corporation on December 31, 2023, in an all-stock merger. Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, DISH Wireless was established on July 1, 2020, to build and operate a national 5G network. As a subsidiary of the publicly-traded EchoStar (NASDAQ: SATS), its financial results are consolidated within the parent company.

As an operating company, DISH Wireless is building the first virtualized, standalone 5G broadband network in the United States. The company's services are offered to consumers through its prepaid and postpaid brands, which include Boost Mobile, Boost Infinite, Republic Wireless, and Gen Mobile. DISH acquired Boost Mobile in 2020 as part of the T-Mobile and Sprint merger, which marked its official entry into the wireless market. While its own 5G network is being deployed, DISH Wireless utilizes roaming agreements with AT&T and T-Mobile to provide nationwide coverage for its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) customers. By June 2023, DISH reported that its 5G network covered over 70 percent of the U.S. population.

The provided data shows DISH Wireless as a plaintiff in one patent case and a defendant in none, suggesting a patent enforcement posture rather than a defensive one. This activity as a plaintiff, undertaken by an operating company, indicates a strategy of actively asserting its intellectual property rights. The single tracked case, DISH Wireless L.L.C. et al. v. International Business Machines Corporation, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. This suit alleges that IBM is infringing on at least five patents related to internet streaming technology that DISH acquired from a company called StreamScale.