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Daniel Frankel

As Dish Reportedly Grows 'Desperate' to Raise Cash to Build Its 5G Network, the 'B Word' Increasingly Gets Thrown Around

Charles "Charlie" Ergen, chairman and co-founder of Dish Network Corp., speaks during a House communications and technology subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, June 27, 2012.

Dish Network is expected to meet the federal government's end-of-June deadline for the company to cover 70% of the U.S. with its new 5G wireless network.

Beyond that, the fate of the network -- and the 28-year-old telecom rooted in satellite-delivered pay TV -- is uncertain.

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