Viasat is not owned by DISH Network LLC however it is an authorized dealer of DISH packages and services. Viasat and DISH logos may appear on combined offers but each company is a separate entity unto itself.

Viasat is an American communications company based in California. It is a public company listed with NASDAQ as VSAT. Viasat owns and operates satellite internet systems that serve military and commercial markets. It was founded in 1986 and has operations around the world. Viasat is owned by Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT), Sony Pictures Television in Hungary, and Viasat World Ltd. Viasat produces high-speed satellite modems, MIDS and Tactical Data Links, Mobile Satcom, Antenna systems, networks and broadband systems. It offers secure networking services. Viasat has business relationships with several partners and its satellites transmit data for the internet which can also include VoIP phone data, and paid TV channels that it may also own. Some of its services are specific to one or more regions around the globe.

DISH Network Corporation is also a public company listed with NASDAQ (DISH). It is an American TV provider based in Colorado but it also has subsidiaries that provide wireless network services to business and consumers. DISH Network Corporation owns the direct-broadcast satellite provider DISH Network as well as Sling TV and Boost Mobile. “DISH” is an acronym for Digital Sky Highway. It has approximately 8 million wireless subscribers under the Boost Mobile brand and has had an agreement to partner with T-Mobile for seven years to use the T-Mobile network. DISH is working on a plan to deploy 5G broadband service to 70% of the U.S. population by mid-2023. DISH also has agreements with AT&T that will let DISH wireless customers roam on AT&T’s 4G and 5G frequencies while it continues to build out its own 5G. Overall, DISH Network has nearly 14 million pay TV subscribers. Sling TV, which it owns, has approximately 2.25 million subscribers.

Viasat is not owned by DISH but instead has an agreement in place to market and to offer DISH Network TV and streaming services to its customers. DISH also markets its own satellite internet service using its own unique equipment.

As telecommunications grows companies must handle burgeoning demand. The largest telecoms are finding ways to market their own inventions as well as to partner with other perhaps smaller innovators to bring the greatest number of customers access to the internet (including phone) and streaming services. The means of how this data reaches your devices can be through a wireless signal in the air or between towers, satellites in space, or in the case of fiber optic and broadband cable, lines buried underground that transmit data using copper wires (broadband cable) or light beams (fiber optic). The landscape of service providers is complex, competitive and continually evolving.