Dish Network has been ordered to pay a $280 million civil penalty after losing a case against the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), US DOJ (Department of Justice), and four US states for carrying out millions of unsolicited telemarketing calls stretching back to 2003. It must be a sorry state of affairs at Dish if the company is investing time and money into intrusive marketing techniques, in what is a desperate attempt to rescue its dwindling customer base. On that note, we’d like to a regurgitate a point we have made in the past, that Dish Network will shrink to eventually become a pure OTT player in 15 years or so – worth far less than its current $29.5 billion valuation.…