I say that within 5 years, DishTV and DirectTV will be gone. There are so many available channels on air that they are almost obsolete, considering the costs of them. I was forced to use them because I wasn’t able to stream well enough. But the local Electric Company brought fiber Optic to the area and now I have unlimited streaming. I am in the process of winding down my cable, but considering the amount of Fiber Optic that is being installed around the country, The Cable companies have priced themselves out of the market.
EchoStar Corporation owns Dish Network, but bought Boost Mobile, which uses larger networks, the same thing Visible and Mint do. The acquisition of Boost happened as a condition of approving T-Mobile’s takeover of Sprint. Sprint had to shed Boost.