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Company Description:

Creating a world without wires via broadband by satellite. Credit card customers speeding through checkout counters. School children e-mailing one another halfway around the world. Telecommuters sharing huge files with the home office in seconds. These are but a few of the ways HNS broadband by satellite solutions are touching the lives of people around the world every day. Hughes Network Systems, Inc. (HNS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Electronic Corporation, is the world's leading provider of broadband satellite network solutions for businesses and consumers, with over 500,000 systems ordered or shipped to customers in more than 85 countries. HNS pioneered the development of high-speed satellite Internet access services, which it markets globally under the DIRECWAY® brand and is a major supplier of mobile satellite networks and user terminals. For terrestrial access, it offers the comprehensive AIReach® family of broadband wireless, point-to-multipoint products. In addition, HNS is a leading manufacturer of DIRECTV® satellite television receivers, having shipped over 12 million by mid 2003. HNS revenues in 2002 were approximately $1.2 billion. Headquartered near Washington, DC, in Germantown, Maryland, with more than 25 facilities and sales offices around the world, HNS employs over 5,000 (including joint ventures) people in engineering, operations, marketing, sales and support. It operates manufacturing facilities in Maryland, Milton Keynes UK and Tijuana, Mexico. Affiliate companies in India include Hughes Software Systems, a publicly traded software development subsidiary and Hughes Escorts Communications Ltd. (HECL), a provider of broadband satellite communications services. HNS plants are ISO-9001 certified in the US, UK and India, and ISO-9002 certified in Mexico.