Dish's $10 billion 5G build-out budget likely won't be enough to build a standalone cellular network

Dish Chairman Charlie Ergenusedthe company's Q4 earnings call to address analysts' concerns that $10 billion would not be enough to build a standalone cellular network. As a condition of T-Mobileacquiring Sprint, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) required Dish to build a standalone network that covers 20% of the US population by 2022. Reuters While skeptics have pointed to the far higher network build-out costs of other US carriers, Ergensaid he believed they failed to account for t...