DISH Network to expand in Tulsa, creating 250 new jobs (Oklahoma)

The Seattle Times ^ | October 24, 2017 | The Associated Press

[2ndDivisionVet]

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The DISH Network has announced that the pay-TV provider is expanding in Tulsa and will create 250 new jobs.

Network officials joined Gov. Mary Fallin, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and other local officials in making the announcement Tuesday.

The company currently has more than 600 employees in Tulsa and plans to expand its current operations in the city.

The new jobs are to include sales, management, human resources and customer retention positions....

[Grampa Dave]

Dish, the old satellite system may be losing more customers to the so called cable cutting surge of people versus some of the big cable companies.

However, their Sling TV is an excellent and reasonable source for internet streaming.

Sling Blue is great for those us boycotting NFL/ESPN/Disney/ABC as it does not carry those anti America channels.

[cymbeline]

Looks to me like optical fiber to the home will eventually provide all of our communications and entertainment.

Satellite broadcast is a great idea but we’ll have the fiber anyway for the internet so the incremental cost to deliver entertainment is small.

What will be the ultimate niche for satellite?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Looks to me like optical fiber to the home will eventually provide all of our communications and entertainment.

When? I'd sign up for Google Fiber or even Verizon FIOS in a heartbeat if they were available. Getting fiber to every home or even most homes is going to be a monumental effort involving a lot of new construction across many municipalities, each with their own set of legal and regulatory hurdles. The future is probably going to be wireless "broadband", with "broadband" being defined by carriers as anything faster than an old 56k modem.

[cymbeline]

“When? I’d sign up for Google Fiber or ...”

The broadband alternative you refer to is “cellphone tower broadband” which we have now. To get the desired bandwidth to all end points I think it would take too many towers except perhaps in rural areas. So cell phone tower broadband might coexist with fiber in the ground.

The nice thing about fiber (or any cable) is that the signal doesn’t have to co-exist with all the other signals that are present in our atmosphere. The signal that is broadcast must be less information-efficient because it has to combat the interference from other signals.

I don’t know how the fiber-in-the-ground versus cellular broadband will work out.

Note also the tunnel-boring machines now in use for putting fiber into the ground. No more ditch digging. Cheaper now to bury cable (actually, conduit is buried and cable pulled through it).

[DaveArk]

Local electric coop is stringing fiber on their poles and will offer fiber to the home soon. Promise 1gbs service. Currently, cable company is fastest, 200mbs.