Hughes Network Systems
Hughes Communications is a subsidiary of EchoStar. It is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland. It provides a high-speed satellite internet service. That servic…
| Hughes Communications, Inc. | |
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| Type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Satellite networks and services |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Pradman Kaul (Chairman, President and CEO) |
| Brands | https://www.hughesnet.com |
| Services | Global communications |
| Revenue | $1.39 billion (2016)[1] |
Number of employees | 4,000 (2016)[1] |
| Parent | EchoStar |
Hughes Communications is a subsidiary of EchoStar. It is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland. It provides a high-speed satellite internet service. That service is called HughesNet. It is the biggest service of its kind because it has more than 1.3 million subscribers in the Americas.[2][3]
Company history
HughesNet
In 1996, Hughes created a satellite Internet service for people and small businesses. The service was called DirecPC.[4] It was renamed to Direcway in May 2002.[5] In 2012, with Hughes' first offering of broadband satellite Internet, it was renamed HughesNet.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 EchoStar Corporation 2016 Annual Report (PDF), EchoStar, archived from the original (PDF) on June 22, 2018, retrieved January 30, 2018
- ↑ de Selding, Peter B. (9 November 2015). "EchoStar Sees HughesNet Revenue Gain Despite Subscriber Volatility". SpaceNews.com. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
- ↑ Baumgartner, Jeff (9 September 2014). "Hughes: Satellite Broadband Has 1M "Active Users"". Multichannel. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
- ↑ "Hughes Hasn't Been This Sexy Since... Thanks to DirecTV, its satellite broadcast service, Hughes Electronics morphed from a defense giant into a white-hot media property. Will Rupert Murdoch get his wish to buy it? - February 5, 2001". archive.fortune.com. Archived from the original on 2018-12-09. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
- ↑ Wireless Satellite & Broadcasting. Information Gatekeepers Inc.
- ↑ "Hughes updates its HughesNet satellite broadband with Gen4 service". Engadget. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
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