Dish, EchoStar reportedly planning nationwide satellite broadband service

Sources report that Dish Network Corp. may use the EchoStar 17 Ka-band platform built by its sister company, EchoStar Corp., to set up a global satellite broadband service. The EchoStar 17 satellite was launched into orbit on July 5. According to one of the insiders (who refused to be named,) the new EchoStar Ka-band satellite…