Raising Subscription Rates: Will Dish Network Lose More Subscribers In 2016?

Dish Network is expected to increase subscription charges by $2 to $8 per month starting January 2016, in line with a similar increase by other Pay-TV networks such as Time Warner Cable and AT&T's U-Verse. Higher programming costs are being passed on by the Pay-TV networks to customers, and we believe this will intensify the competition in this space, as consumers shift to alternate streaming platforms, shrinking the Pay-TV pie. Dish TV can lose subscribers to other networks in addition to cord ...