There may be financial storm-clouds hanging over Dish’s 5G build-out because of Covid-19 (see previous item), and that will make itlas even more important that the company can prove its naysayers wrong, and manage to roll out a national network for just $10bn as it has promised. It has pledged to do this by following the example of another greenfield MNO, Rakuten Mobile of Japan, in adopting open architectures that allow a heavily software-centric network to be deployed mainly on common server hardware. It will also keep capex and, particularly, opex under control by turning to partnerships for many aspects of the network, such as passive and cloud infrastructure. Dish has already issued three RFPs (requests for proposal) for its…