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 Dish intends to use satellite…
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 distribution partner in Frontier, who…
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 subsidiary Hughes satellite broadband capability…
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, LLC (Hughes), a wholly owned…
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 just under a year ago,…
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 service providers to make a…
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 service,” the spokesman told Telecompetitor….
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 in the telecommunications industry for…
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 to refinance after closing. Hughes…
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…
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…
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…
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