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Hughes Communications, Inc.
Subsidiary
Industry Satellite networks and services
Founded 1971; 53 years ago (1971) (Digital Communications Corp)
Headquarters Germantown, Maryland, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Pradman Kaul
(Chairman, President and CEO)
Services Global communications
Revenue $1.39 billion (2016)
Number of employees
4,000 (2016)
Parent EchoStar

Hughes Communications is a subsidiary of EchoStar. It is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland. It provides a high-speed satellite internet service. That service is called HughesNet. It is the biggest service of its kind because it has more than 1.3 million subscribers in the Americas.

Company history

HughesNet

In 1996, Hughes created a satellite Internet service for people and small businesses. The service was called DirecPC. It was renamed to Direcway in May 2002. In 2012, with Hughes' first offering of broadband satellite Internet, it was renamed HughesNet.

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