EchoStar’s Hughes: Managing bandwidth for consumers and airlines; ‘large S-band global LEO’ coming for IoT

by Peter B. de Selding

WASHINGTON — EchoStar Corp.’s Hughes division is managing what it hopes will be a gradual decline in its consumer broadband subscribers to prioritize in-flight connectivity and considering how to maximize the potential of its global S-band spectrum license.

The company is using its access to Eutelsat Group’s OneWeb LEO broadband satellite constellation to offer a multi-orbit product to customers, and has signed two deals with Delta Air Lines.

On the S-band side, EchoStar expects to be operating the first of . . .

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