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Tag: Echostar
Echostar Completes Merger with DISH
Englewood, Colorado — January 2, 2024 — /PRNewswire/ — EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) (“EchoStar”) announced today the completion of its acquisition of DISH Network Corporation (“DISH Network”) on December 31, 2023. To complete the acquisition, a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar merged…
EchoStar Begins Construction of Global S-band Network
Denver, Colorado February 1, 2023 – Today, EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) announced an agreement with Astro Digital, a designer, manufacturer and operator of small satellite systems, for the construction of a global S-band mobile satellite service (MSS)…
Another Satellite Broadband Option Coming From Dish?
There are several news reports, including one from Bloomberg BusinessWeek, that discuss a potential new satellite broadband option that may be offered from Dish Network, perhaps as a bundled offer with their TV service. Apparently…
Frontier Partners With Hughes for Satellite Broadband
Echostar recently announced the launch of its next generation satellite for broadband, EchoStar XVII, which will offer faster broadband speeds and be offered through Hughes as HughesNet Gen4 service. They now have a new sales…
Satellite Broadband Options to Expand With EchoStar XVII Satellite Launch
Additional satellite broadband options will be available once the just launched EchoStar XVII satellite becomes operational. The new satellite features ‘Jupiter’ technology, which apparently refers to its faster broadband performance. The satellite will give EchoStar…
EchoStar Preps to Launch New Satellite for NextGen HughesNet Satellite Broadband
Palo Alto, Calif. & GERMANTOWN, Md. – May 14, 2012 – Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the world’s leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that the EchoStar XVII satellite, designed and built for Hughes Network Systems,…
EchoStar’s Set-Top-Box Exit Reminds Smaller Carriers of Video Platform Risks
Tier 2 and 3 video service providers will have one less set-top box option now that EchoStar has revealed it no longer plans to offer its Aria solution in the U.S. Aria, which was launched…
Avail-TVN Aggressively Pursues ViP-TV Customers
Video service providers that have been using Echostar’s ViP-TV offering have only about two months to transition to an alternative video programming delivery platform—and according to Avail-TVN, provider of an alternative platform, that timeline requires…
Echostar to Shut Down ViP-TV
A spokesman for Echostar confirmed today that Echostar will be shutting down ViP-TV, its wholesale IPTV MPEG-4 transport offering, within “the next couple of months.” “Looking at the business environment, we decided to terminate the…
Echostar Closes Hughes Acquisition
Englewood, Colorado and Germantown, Maryland, June 8, 2011–EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS ) and Hughes Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: HUGH) announced today the successful completion of EchoStar’s acquisition of Hughes. EchoStar Corporation is recognized as a leader…
Echostar to Acquire Hughes Communications
Satellite broadband provider Hughes Networks’ parent company, Hughes Communications, is being bought by Echostar in a transaction valued at about $2 billion. Echostar is paying $60.70 per share and assuming Hughes debt, which it expects…
Echostar Adds ViP-TV IPTV Resellers, Pace, Fidelity
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…