"This agreement is in the best interests of EchoStar's customers, shareholders, bondholders, employees, and partners," said Hamid Akhavan, President and Chief Executive Officer, EchoStar. "With an improved financial profile, we will be better positioned to continue enhancing and deploying our nationwide 5G Open RAN wireless network. This will provide U.S. wireless consumers with more choices and help to drive innovation at a faster pace. We expect DISH and EchoStar bondholders to benefit from two companies with stronger financial profiles and more sustainable capital structures."
"DIRECTV operates in a highly competitive video distribution industry," said Bill Morrow, Chief Executive Officer, DIRECTV. "With greater scale, we expect a combined DIRECTV and DISH will be better able to work with programmers to realize our vision for the future of TV, which is to aggregate, curate, and distribute content tailored to customers' interests, and to be better positioned to realize operating efficiencies while creating value for customers."
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