Charlie Ergen says EchoStar won't chase Elon Musk's Starlink in satellite internet services race

Charlie Ergen is a gambling man. The satellite industry billionaire started his business with winnings from Las Vegas blackjack tables, and he launched the first satellite for Dish Network's television service uninsured on a Chinese rocket that often exploded. One risk Ergen doesn’t see as a winning strategy for EchoStar Corp., his Douglas County-based satellite services business, is to compete directly against the massive low-Earth orbit Starlink satellite fleet being launched by Elon Musk's…