EchoStar Adds Subscribers, Targets 2016 for Solaris Commercial Service

摘要

Satellite consumer broadband provider EchoStar Corp. on Nov. 6 said it increased its subscriber base by 2.7 percent in the three months ending Sept. 30, with wider profit margins, despite a drop in wholesale revenue from broadband subscribers collected by its sister company, Dish Network. In a conference call with investors, EchoStar also said its satellite-terrestrial broadband service, Solaris Mobile of Dublin, would launch its EchoStar 21 satellite, formerly called TerreStar-2, in early 2016, with commercial service to begin later that year. Englewood, Colorado-based EchoStar purchased Solaris from satellite fleet operators Eutelsat of Paris and SES of Luxembourg but has not announced how it plans to commercialize the service in Europe once the EchoStar 21 satellite is in place.