Dish Network continues to build up its supplier list, adding Ciena’s Blue Planet platform for network automation. It continues to boast that it will have a fully virtualized, multivendor and open 5G network, Rakuten-style (though with different suppliers) next year, despite some analysts’ scepticism about Dish’s commercial chance of making a big dent in the market share of the big three MNOs, especially as it is also trying to prop up an ailing pay-TV business. But Dish’s chairman, Charlie Ergen, is never one to be deterred by a risky commercial landscape, and is now looking beyond Dish’s 5G build-out to more ambitious investments in wireless technology. He plans to create a company – separate from Dish but with the ability…