Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Satellite networks and services |
Founded | 1971 | (Digital Communications Corp)
Headquarters | Germantown, Maryland, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Pradman Kaul (Chairman, President and CEO) |
Brands | https://www.hughesnet.com |
Services | Global communications |
Revenue | $1.39 billion (2016)[1] |
Number of employees | 4,000 (2016)[1] |
Parent | EchoStar |
Website | Hughes.com |
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.[2][3]
In 1996, Hughes created a satellite Internet service for people and small businesses. The service was called DirecPC.[4] It was renamed to Direcway in May 2002.[5] In 2012, with Hughes' first offering of broadband satellite Internet, it was renamed HughesNet.[6]