For one, Dish Network or DirecTV might doa deal with Apple to offer consumers who normally default to their local cable company another reason to give them a try.
On Friday, news was continuing to emerge about a flurry of lawsuits between Dish Network, which last week released a tool to let its DVR customers do exactly that, and the major television networks.
While it is hard to predict how the FCC will rule, we do think this is the first shot by DISH in what could be a long and messy court battle for Clearwire.