Verizon: We Won’t Sell Huffington Post or Buy Dish

Wall Street Journal: Verizon has no desire to sell the Huffington Post or buy Dish Network, according to CFO Fran Shammo. Verizon agreed last month to pay $4.4 billion for AOL, which owns several media properties including the Huffington Post and TechCrunch. The carrier has said its main interest in the deal was AOL’s digital advertising technology. But Shammo said Verizon likes all of AOL’s portfolio and wants to keep it together. He also said the company has no interest in acquiring Dish. The satellite TV provider is currently in talks to merge with T-Mobile US. Some observers have speculated Verizon might swoop in and try to buy Dish to get hold of the company’s wireless spectrum. But Shammo said if Verizon wanted more spectrum, it could have bought it at a recent government auction.