Re: [amsat-bb] Dwav satellites

["Don Woodward" <dbwoodw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That's the terrestrial service - not the 2-way satellite. The Directway
satellite business will remain...

"HUGHES will continue to offer its DIRECWAY(R) satellite-delivered consumer
broadband service, which currently has approximately 160,000 subscribers.  The
company will continue to add new DIRECWAY customers but will not increase the
subscriber base aggressively in the near term to avoid the cash requirements
from the subscriber acquisition costs."

73's

Don Woodward
KD4APP
AMSAT 33535
kd4app@amsat.org
http://kd4app.webhop.org


----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Day" <n5wd@charter.net>
To: "Stan" <stan@capecod.com>
Cc: <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 23:27
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Dwav satellites


On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 01:56:51 +0000, Stan wrote:
>Hello the net,
>
>I am considering the HUGHES DWAV internet service via Ku band
>satellite,,but it is very hard to get info from them.
>
>any idea of the names and locations of the HUGHES satellites
>providing this service ?
>I want to be sure they will be visible to me.

Sorry, Stan, but you're out of luck with DirectTV's broadband
service, since Hughes, the owner, has announced that they're pulling
the plug on the service within 90 days:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story
/12-13-2002/0001857439&EDATE=

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/24357


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