DirecTV, EchoStar Bundle UpDirecTV is building a network to offer its own wireless broadband services
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old news - 03:01PM Thursday Feb 02 2006)
By Sandy Brown
TheStreet.com Staff Reporter
1/30/2006 11:28 AM ESTRupert Murdoch's DirecTV is linking up with rival EchoStar Communications to launch a nationwide wireless broadband network, TheStreet.com has learned.
Seeking to keep pace with peers in the telecom and cable TV industries, DirecTV is building a network to offer its own wireless broadband services to consumers, according to two people familiar with the deal. These people say that DirecTV is working with EchoStar and seeking final bids from tower companies in a push to put the network together.
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