DISH Network Corporation

Please stand by. We're about to begin. Good day, everyone, and welcome to the DISH Network Corporation Q3 2021 earnings call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to Mr. Brandon Earhart. Please go ahead, sir.

Thanks, Alan. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. We're joined on the call today by Charlie Ergen, our chairman, Eric Carlson, our CEO, Brian Nealon, our EVP and group president, Pay TV, Michael Schwimmer, our EVP and group president, Sling TV, and Paul Orban, our CFO. And on the wireless side, we've got Steven Bai, our Chief Commercial Officer, Dave May, our EVP of Network Deployment, and John Syringa, our EVP and Group President of Retail Wireless and the DISH COO. We're not going to be making any opening remarks today, but we will start with the same safe harbors. Statements that we make during this call that are not statements of historical fact constitute forward-looking statements that are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from historical results and or from our forecast. We assume no responsibility for updating forward-looking statements. For more information, please refer to the risks, uncertainties, and other factors discussed in our FCC filing. Also, as part of the process for FCC Auction 110, we filed an application to participate as a bidder for those spectrum licenses. Because of the FCC's anti-collusion rules, we're not able to discuss that auction, and we will not be taking questions on that during today's call. That's it. And with that, Alan, let's open it up to questions, and let's start with the analyst first.

Thank you, sir. If you'd like to ask a question, please signal by pressing star 1 on your telephone keypad. If you're using a speakerphone, please make sure that your mute function is turned off to allow your signal to reach our equipment. A voice prompt on the phone line will indicate when your line is open. Again, this session first will be for analysts only. If you're not an analyst, please hold your question for now. But again, for analysts, star 1 if you'd like to ask a question at this time. We'll take our first analyst question from David Barden with Bank of America. Please go ahead.