The initial success of consumer satellite broadband services in the United States and Canada has not persuaded FxhoStar that the business is financially viable in the long term, EchoStar Chairman Charlie Ergen said. Littleton, Colo.-based EchoStar Communications Corp. invested in consumer broadband in the late 1990s and subsequently wrote off the expense when these efforts ran into financial trouble. But since then, the direct-broadcast satellite television provider has purchased Ku- and Ka-band satellite capacity from SES Global of Luxembourg, saying that part of this capacity could be used to add broadband to EchoStar's core television-delivery service.
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