Dish Network has many challenges. It has to hit FCC-mandated 5G roll-out targets while taking share from the big US operators in both consumer and enterprise markets; proving out its ambitious wholesale model; starting to mitigate the decline of its core pay-TV business; and finding sufficient funds to do all of the above. However, at least Dish has not suffered from excessive caution. It has set out a clear vision of how it will build a fully sliceable virtualized RAN and core, which will enable it to provision differentiated virtual networks to support its own retail operations, led by Boost Mobile, and (it hopes) a large number of enterprise and private network wholesale customers too. It has taken a significant…