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Pace Joins Echostar's ViP-TV Reseller Program for IPTV Solutions St. Louis, Mo. – April 13, 2010 – EchoStar Satellite Services L.L.C., a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), announced today that Minnesota-based Pace International, a national satellite TV hardware and content distributor and provider of IPTV solutions for telcos, ISPs and system operators, has joined the ViP-TV™ Reseller Program. The companies ...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – March 8, 2010 – EchoStar Satellite Services L.L.C., a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), announced today that Georgia-based Transparent Technologies, Inc. (TTI), a leading provider of integrated video and data services, has joined the ViP-TV™ Reseller Program. As a reseller, TTI will market ViP-TV services to cable systems, telco operators, healthcare facilities, hospitality venues and enterprises ...

ENGLEWOOD, CO--(Marketwire - January 20, 2010) - EchoStar Satellite Services L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), announced today an agreement to deliver its ViP-TV™ video transport service to BTC Broadband, a provider of whole home telecommunications services in Oklahoma. BTC will receive transport of up to 49 HDTV channels to its IPTV headend. BTC Broadband is a ...

ENGLEWOOD, CO--(Marketwire - March 23, 2009) - EchoStar Satellite Services, a division of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), announced today the company's IP-Prime Conversion Program, designed to provide continued delivery of video transport services for telco IP headend facilities across the United States. Commercial transport provider IP-Prime has previously announced it will discontinue its video transport service to headend facilities by ...

Echostar/DISH announced their intention to enter the IPTV marketplace, targeting telcos and rural cable systems with an IPTV MPEG-4 transport solution, branded as ViP-TV. ViP-TV General Manger Daniel Daines tells Telecompetitor, “Our solution will allow our partners to offer a DISH Networks television experience to their subscribers, utilizing ...

Everywhere you look these days, you see chatter about a potential acquisition of Echostar/DISH Networks by AT&T. If you subscribe to the old adage, “where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” this must be a done deal. Of course we’ve seen this before. AT&T has been rumored to want to ...

Echostar/DISH Networks announced the acquisition of Sling Media yesterday, maker of the Slingbox. DISH is purchasing Sling Media for $380 million and they expect the deal to close in the fourth quarter. DISH clearly sees this acquisition as a means ...

Clearwire announced today that it has partnered with both DirecTV and Dish Networks to resell each others services. Clearwire’s broadband wireless Internet can now be bundled with both DirecTV and Echostar’s Dish Network satellite video services. The reverse is true as well, with Clearwire ...

CenturyTel and Echostar renewed their strategic partnership to offer DISH Network as a part of CenturyTel’s triple play bundle. Both parties seem to be quite pleased with the relationship, although no official subscriber numbers or projections were released with the announcement. This development begs the question, what exactly is CenturyTel’s long term triple play strategy? Have they decided that an ...