EchoStar Moving Satellite to Brazilian Slot Absent a Local TV Partner

摘要

U.S. satellite broadband and video provider EchoStar Corp. on May 9 said it is moving one of its satellites to a Brazilian orbital slot immediately despite the company's inability to secure a Brazilian satellite-television partner 18 months after it won the slot at auction. Englewood, Colo.-based EchoStar also said its Hughes division added 56,000 new subscribers to its HughesNet Gen4 consumer broadband service in the United States in the three months ending March 31, bringing the total to 692,000. This performance, and, the prospects for similar subscriber growth in the coming months, drove EchoStar in March to order what will be the largest-ever broadband satellite, from Space Systems/Loral of Palo Alto, Calif.