Dish To Use AWS For 5G Network

'Dish Network is partnering with Amazon to roll out 5G service in Las Vegas,' writes Slashdot reader fermion. 'They will evidently not only be the first cloud-based 5G service, but also will allow Amazon to test its network in a large telecommunication situation.' CNBC reports: Dish will start operating 'the first standalone, cloud-based 5G Open Radio Access Network in the United States, beginning with Las Vegas later this year,' the company said in a statement Wednesday. The statement said Amazon and Dish will work together to see how organizations including Amazon and AWS use 5G or build their own networks. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.

Dave Brown, vice president of AWS' core Elastic Compute Cloud service, told CNBC's 'TechCheck' on Wednesday that the collaboration with Dish will 'absolutely' serve as a sort of case study Amazon can take to other telecommunications providers to show that 5G networks can run in clouds, rather than in data centers with special-purpose infrastructure.

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