Dish the disruptor 05 MAY 2021 In the US mobile market, Dish Network appears to have replaced T-Mobile as the audacious upstart that could change the game for all players. Eight years ago T-Mobile started shaking up the market with aggressive pricing and marketing. Dish’s brand of disruption is different; the company wants to build a new wireless network using open interfaces and cloud-based infrastructure. Whereas T-Mobile schooled its competitors on consumer marketing, Dish may teach them valuable lessons about the brave new world of open RAN. By eschewing custom hardware and central offices, Dish expects to spend far less on its network than competitors do, currently budgeting $10 billion for the build.