Dish Network has announced two further suppliers for its forthcoming 5G network in the USA, Altiostar and Fujitsu. The satellite TV provider has pledged to emulate Rakuten Mobile’s cloud-native, multivendor network based on open interfaces, and indeed, it is clearly adopting a similar approach. It will deploy a disaggregated network supporting open specs such as O-RAN, and with different suppliers for hardware and software (and potentially multiple virtual network function suppliers per domain). However, despite the architectural similarities, it is not selecting all the same vendors. Altiostar is Rakuten’s 4G and 5G RAN VNF provider, but in Dish’s case, it will share the RAN software glory with Mavenir, already selected in April for its open RAN software. And Fujitsu will…