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Dish Network acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Dish Network bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

BusinessDealWhenValue
Boost Mobile
Word for word“As a result of the Boost Mobile, Ting Mobile and Republic Wireless acquisitions, among others, we have entered the retail wireless business.” 10-K for 2022
acquisition——
Ting Mobile
Word for word“As a result of the Boost Mobile, Ting Mobile and Republic Wireless acquisitions, among others, we have entered the retail wireless business.” 10-K for 2022
acquisition——
Republic Wireless
Word for word“As a result of the Boost Mobile, Ting Mobile and Republic Wireless acquisitions, among others, we have entered the retail wireless business.” 10-K for 2022
acquisition——
SNR HoldCo
Word for word“This purchase resulted in the conversion of our outstanding redeemable noncontrolling interest as it relates to SNR HoldCo to noncontrolling interest, which is now held by our parent, EchoStar, as of the purchase date.” 10-K for 2023
acquisition——
wholly-owned subsidiary which holds the 700 MHz spectrum
Word for word“On March 12, 2024, we sold our wholly-owned subsidiary which holds the 700 MHz spectrum to a wholly-owned subsidiary of our parent, EchoStar (the “ 700 MHz Spectrum Sale to EchoStar”) , for fair value of approximately $1.037 billion.” 10-K for 2024
divestitureOn March 12, 2024approximately $1.037 billion
As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year endedCash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)
2020-12-31$1.31 billion

Deal filings since 2016

Read from Dish Network’s annual reports (10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023, 10-K for 2022) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2025-03-12. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.