Ahead of next year’s expected deployments of 5G, Dish Network announced fiber agreements on Monday with Everstream, Segra, Uniti and Zayo.
Those four fiber partnerships will provide fronthaul and backhaul support for Dish’s 5G network to sites covering approximately 60 million U.S. citizens. According to a story by FierceWireless, Dish expects to have some small preliminary 5G markets live in the first quarter of next year before having its first major 5G market deployment by the third quarter of 2021.
The agreements with the four fiber companies will give Dish access to fiber coast-to-coast to connect to markets with its cloud-native, Open RAN based 5G network.
