DISH Network Announces Debt Offering

 

14 May 2013

DISH Network Corporation announced that its subsidiary, DISH DBS Corporation ("DISH DBS"), plans to offer, subject to market and other conditions, approximately $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of its senior notes. The net proceeds of the offering will be placed into escrow. The net proceeds from the sale of the notes in this offering will be released from escrow to make a cash distribution to DISH Network to finance a portion of the cash consideration for DISH Network's proposed merger with Sprint Nextel Corporation ("Sprint"). If the proposed merger with Sprint does not occur on or prior to the escrow end date, or if DISH DBS elects at any time on or prior to the escrow end date, DISH DBS will redeem all of the notes.

The notes will only be offered and sold to qualified institutional buyers in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and in offshore transactions in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act. The notes being offered have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction. The notes may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the notes; nor shall there be any sale of these notes in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.