Charlie Ergen
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board at DISH Network
I didn't hear it -- I didn't get the part of that, but let me maybe answer the question in a little bit broader term and then you can ask a follow-up. The focus that we have is -- focus we have today as management is let's hit to 70% where we have CC milestone, right? That takes any chance of taking our spectrum back off the table. It takes something that a lot of times people focus on out of the conversation, and it's an unbelievable effort during COVID and supply chain shortages to even do that from a standing start. So, it's -- it would be a real feather in our cap, we'd be really proud to do that. So that's the focus.
The second focus has been to get off, as John mentioned, this is something that's important that the Street probably didn't focus on, but we're on two operating systems, OSS/BSS and the TSA that we have from T-Mobile and then our own internal. We've got to get everything to our own internal system, and we've got to migrate all those customers over, which is not as difficult as CDMA migration, but nonetheless, a big focus for us to do, and it takes a lot of time and effort to do it. So that, we got to get done. So those are two big things to get done before the end of the next quarter.
And then to your point, you -- in postpaid world, obviously, Apple is a trusted partner and important for us. But we haven't been able to do kind of things that maybe they'd like us to do or we'd like doing the prepaid business. You just -- it's hard to sell a $1,000 phone to customer that has no credit. But in the postpaid world, that's obviously a different issue. So, we're excited to get started with them. And yes, I think it is a -- when the 15 comes out and you can put it on your network in a postpaid environment and you got -- pretty close to scale at that point, I think that's a game changer for us to the extent that we get certified and have a business arrangement with Apple that's productive for both of us, right?
So, we have to focus on that because that's not done yet. But it gives you a feel for some of the big things that we work on. And last quarter, we were able to get a couple of things. We now have Samsung and Mavenir in our network, so we have two vendors that prove ORAN works. We have two vendors for radios, a third vendor in test that should be completed pretty soon. The world that -- we've got phones now, both on Motorola and Samsung, that work on our -- that have all our bands and for the network. So, we're making a lot of progress every day. It's not showing up in the numbers yet, probably not going to show up in numbers next quarter. But then you're going to start seeing it, you'll start seeing the beginnings of that. And then as we get to scale, you'll see the real -- at that point, somebody will be glad they're an investor.