DISH Network Corporation (DISH) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ:DISH) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call February 23, 2023 12:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Tim Messner - Executive Vice President & General Counsel

Erik Carlson - Chief Executive Officer

Charlie Ergen - Chairman

Paul Orban - Chief Financial Officer

John Swieringa - President and Chief Operating Officer, DISH Wireless

Dave Mayo - Executive Vice President, Network Development

Conference Call Participants

Ric Prentiss - Raymond James

Phil Cusick - JPMorgan

Doug Mitchelson - Credit Suisse

John Hodulik - UBS

David Barden - BofA

Kannan Venkateshwar - Barclays

Jonathan Chaplin - New Street Research

Bryan Kraft - Deutsche Bank

Michael Rollins - Citi

John Celentano - Inside Towers

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the DISH Network Corporation Q4 and Year-End 2022 Earnings Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded.

At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Tim Messner. Please go ahead, sir.

Tim Messner

All right. Thanks, Shelley. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. We are joined on the call today by Charlie Ergen, our Chairman; Erik Carlson, our CEO; Paul Orban, our CFO. And then on the wireless side, we've got Tom Cullen, EVP of Corporate Development; John Swieringa, President and COO of Wireless; and Dave Mayo, our EVP of Network Development. And before we start, I need to remind you of our Safe Harbors.

During the call, we might make forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from historical results or from our forecast, we assume no responsibility for updating the forward-looking statements for more information on factors that might affect future results. Please refer to our SEC filings.

We're going to generally go straight to questions. But before we do that, I'm going to turn it over to Erik for a brief update.

Erik Carlson

Thanks, Tim. Before we open it up for questions, just a quick update. This morning, we experienced an internal outage that's continuing to affect our internal servers and IT telephony. Our DISH and Sling services and our wireless and data networks continue to operate normally, are up and running.

However, some of our internal communications, customer care functions, Internet sites were affected and are currently down. We're analyzing the root causes and any consequences of the outage while we work to restore the affected systems as quickly as possible.