Boosted Out: EchoStar Sells Spectrum,

… Shrinks Ambitions, and Calls It Innovation.

EchoStar is calling it a milestone. That’s one way to describe a fire sale. The company just offloaded 50 MHz of spectrum in the 3.45 GHz and 600 MHz bands to AT&T for $23 billion and dressed it up as a strategic leap forward. They even tossed in a new “hybrid MNO” model for Boost Mobile, which now relies on AT&T’s infrastructure while keeping a cloud-native 5G core for appearances.