DirecTV Bemoans Bulk Purchases, High Cost of Spaceway Satellites

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DirecTV would like to purchase more Spaceway-type satellites with sophisticated on-board processing but the technology remains too expensive to undertake a repeat order, a DirecTV official said. The official added that DirecTV is unlikely to conduct any more bulk purchases of satellites because it suspects quality dropsrnoff after the first one is built.rnIn Sept. 8 comments during the World Satellite Business Week conference in Paris organized by Eu-roconsult, Phil Goswitz, senior vice president at El Segundo, Calif. -based DirecTV, said that five years after the launch of the Spaceway 1 and Spaceway 2 Ka-band satellites, the company regrets that the price of the technology remains too high to order more of them.