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here that goes.
Demand for slicing, again private networks is what I really call it. You can use your imagination, but I guess I'd answer it this way. There isn't a Fortune 500 company's CEO that I talked to that their Board of Directors haven't said what's your 5G strategy. And what they really mean by it is they don't really know what 5G means, but they really mean how do you use connectivity to improve your business, improve your product, to make it safer and you're going to have to have -- if you are a product company, you got a private network, you got advantages. If you're a retailer, you have a private network, you have an advantage because you know your sales, you know your security of your parking lots, whatever it is, the use cases are endless.
And first of all, any field that call me, I'll take the call. Second, I [Indecipherable] and our team will. And we'll work with their people to make their business better. All right. And we will be tireless in that effort. And we don't have to get 100% of the profits. We actually share. So we'll see what happens. We are building something special. And we may fail, but we are building something special.
John Hodulik -- UBS. -- Analyst
Got it. Thanks.
Operator
We'll take the next question. That comes from Jonathan Chaplin from New Street.
Jonathan Chaplin -- New Street -- Analyst
Thank you. Charlie, in the early days, you said that you weren't going to start building the network until you knew who you're building it for. But you would ultimately partner up with an anchor tenant that would be either sort of the first user of the network. Is that still the case? And if so, I think initially you had said you needed to get a commercial trial up and running before you sort of selected one of those anchor tenants. Is that something you would do after running a couple of small markets in the beginning of 2021 or is it something you have to wait until later in the year?
Charlie Ergen -- Co-founder and Chairman of the Board
Answer is I don't know the answer to those questions. We clearly will start with -- there is -- the Chinese philosopher said a journey of 1,000 miles start with the first step. So we'll clearly start with a first step. That was last month when we built our first tower. That was the that step. We will have -- we will have a -- we have consumers on the network.
Today john is adding customers, today on T Mobile network, but through our Boost facility, so that's the step. And we will have anchor tenant. That will be a step. But we will have many, many private networks on what we are doing. And I don't know the exact timing on that. We don't -- all I can say is the way that we look at business is we look -- our definition of partnership is that somebody helps -- we help somebody make their business better and they help us make our business better and that is a fun way to do business and you can accomplish great things.
It's not just about we send you a check. It's not always about a zero-sum game. The thing that's always frustrated me about programing agreements in Erik's business is it's almost always a zero-sum game. If a programmer comes in, they want to tell a rate, they want more money. Our customers don't want to pay money more. So we fight for our customers. And you never have a discussion about how you can build a better product for the customer where maybe the programmer to make more money and we can give a better product to our customers. I think we're going to be able to do that in the wireless business and it's kind of a breath of fresh air.
And the only reason I say that is the timing gets muddier in terms of we know where we have to be and if we can't get there with somebody we will at some point, we know that as we get better and better more and more companies will take a chance on us, because they are very successful, they are in the driver's seat. And now somebody has got -- the next guys has got a prime amount of driver's seat. And so they got to ask themselves do they bet on DISH or do they stay in the same lines and hope like he only fail. I got a
here that goes.
Demand for slicing, again private networks is what I really call it. You can use your imagination, but I guess I'd answer it this way. There isn't a Fortune 500 company's CEO that I talked to that their Board of Directors haven't said what's your 5G strategy. And what they really mean by it is they don't really know what 5G means, but they really mean how do you use connectivity to improve your business, improve your product, to make it safer and you're going to have to have -- if you are a product company, you got a private network, you got advantages. If you're a retailer, you have a private network, you have an advantage because you know your sales, you know your security of your parking lots, whatever it is, the use cases are endless.
And first of all, any field that call me, I'll take the call. Second, I [Indecipherable] and our team will. And we'll work with their people to make their business better. All right. And we will be tireless in that effort. And we don't have to get 100% of the profits. We actually share. So we'll see what happens. We are building something special. And we may fail, but we are building something special.
John Hodulik -- UBS. -- Analyst
Got it. Thanks.
Operator
We'll take the next question. That comes from Jonathan Chaplin from New Street.
Jonathan Chaplin -- New Street -- Analyst
Thank you. Charlie, in the early days, you said that you weren't going to start building the network until you knew who you're building it for. But you would ultimately partner up with an anchor tenant that would be either sort of the first user of the network. Is that still the case? And if so, I think initially you had said you needed to get a commercial trial up and running before you sort of selected one of those anchor tenants. Is that something you would do after running a couple of small markets in the beginning of 2021 or is it something you have to wait until later in the year?
Charlie Ergen -- Co-founder and Chairman of the Board
 Answer is I don't know the answer to those questions. We clearly will start with -- there is -- the Chinese philosopher said a journey of 1,000 miles start with the first step. So we'll clearly start with a first step. That was last month when we built our first tower. That was the that step. We will have -- we will have a -- we have consumers on the network.
Today john is adding customers, today on T Mobile network, but through our Boost facility, so that's the step. And we will have anchor tenant. That will be a step. But we will have many, many private networks on what we are doing. And I don't know the exact timing on that. We don't -- all I can say is the way that we look at business is we look -- our definition of partnership is that somebody helps -- we help somebody make their business better and they help us make our business better and that is a fun way to do business and you can accomplish great things.
It's not just about we send you a check. It's not always about a zero-sum game. The thing that's always frustrated me about programing agreements in Erik's business is it's almost always a zero-sum game. If a programmer comes in, they want to tell a rate, they want more money. Our customers don't want to pay money more. So we fight for our customers. And you never have a discussion about how you can build a better product for the customer where maybe the programmer to make more money and we can give a better product to our customers. I think we're going to be able to do that in the wireless business and it's kind of a breath of fresh air.
And the only reason I say that is the timing gets muddier in terms of we know where we have to be and if we can't get there with somebody we will at some point, we know that as we get better and better more and more companies will take a chance on us, because they are very successful, they are in the driver's seat. And now somebody has got -- the next guys has got a prime amount of driver's seat. And so they got to ask themselves do they bet on DISH or do they stay in the same lines and hope like he only fail. I got a