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Dish Wireless, DBS File for Bankruptcy

EchoStar’s $23 billion spectrum deal with AT&T still hasn’t closed ‘due to unforeseen delays’

Jake Neenan

Jake Neenan

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Dish Wireless, DBS File for Bankruptcy
Photo of Dish Network satellite dishes are shown at an apartment complex in Palo Alto, Calif. on Feb. 23, 2011, by Paul Sakuma/AP

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2026 – Dish Wireless and Dish DBS, EchoStar’s mobile wireless and pay-TV units, filed for bankruptcy Tuesday.

EchoStar said in a release that “due to unforeseen delays,” its $23 billion spectrum sale to AT&T had not yet closed despite clearing regulatory reviews.

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